On a cold day in eighteenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger's horse for a golden guinea and quickly finds himself in a difficult situation when the king's guard appears and wants to use him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: turpin, richard, 1706-1739, fiction, horses, fiction, thieves, adventure fiction, historical fiction, great britain, history, fiction