The Knowledge

London, present day. Beneath the glittering surface of the city, a different economy moves through the night — stolen scooters, vanished Vespas, and boys who disappear into it.

Sixteen-year-old Olly is sleeping rough when he's drawn into a network stealing high-value scooters from London's streets. Recruited by a boy who calls himself Dodger, he's pulled into the orbit of a man everyone simply calls Fagin.

What Olly finds is a modern criminal economy: stolen Vespas and electric bikes, rival crews working the same postcodes, and people who know exactly how to turn theft into money. For the first time in a long time, he feels like he belongs somewhere.

But belonging has a price. As the network tightens its grip and rival crews start to circle, what looked like opportunity becomes something far more dangerous. A modern Dickensian tale for a city that never stopped needing one, *The Knowledge* reimagines Oliver Twist's London of pickpockets and gangs as a present-day underworld of stolen wheels and stolen chances.

For readers drawn to modern retellings of classic stories, gritty coming-of-age tales, and the dark pull of the criminal underworld.

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