The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

✍ Scribed by Colin Meloy

• Book ID: 100180733
• Publisher: HarperCollins;Penguin Random House Australia
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0062342479

✦ Synopsis

A secret society. A dangerous game. A mythical school.

The thrilling new novel from the creators of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles.

It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing robbery. As the young bandits appear to melt into the crowd, Charlie realizes with a start that he himself was one of their marks.

Yet Charlie is less alarmed than intrigued. This is the most thrilling thing that's happened to him since he came to France with his father, an American diplomat. So instead of reporting the thieves, Charlie defends one of their cannons, Amir, to the police, under one condition: he teach Charlie the tricks of the trade. What starts off as a lesson on pinches, kicks, and chumps soon turns into an invitation for Charlie to join the secret world of the whiz mob, an international...