This is the most thrilling thing that’s happened to him since he came to France with his father, an American diplomat. Yet Charlie is less alarmed than intrigued.
As the young bandits appear to melt into the crowd, Charlie realizes with a start that he himself was one of their marks. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing robbery. It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. From the creators of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpockets-imagine The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets Oliver Twist.
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