Gideon the Cutpurse

The excitement of time travel The romance of the 18th Century The most sinister villain imaginable
An encounter with an anti–gravity machine catapults Peter Schock and Kate Dyer back to the 18th century and sets in motion a calamitious chain of events. While a massive police hunt gets underway to find the missing children in the 21st century, in 1763 a hardened criminal, the Tar Man, steals the anti–gravity machine and disappears into the London underworld. Stranded in another time and forced to chase the Tar Man to his lair, Peter and Kate find a friend and guide in reformed cutpurse, Gideon Seymour. Gideon does everything he can to help them, but will his dark past catch up with him before the machine is recovered?

The first in a fast–paced series, Gideon the Cutpurse is a thrilling new adventure set in a world of highwaymen, thieves and cutpurses. As Peter and Kate explore the awesome possibilities of time travel, they find themselves wondering whether it might be mankind’s worst nightmare…