In June of 1910, a fourteen-year-old boy finds himself in trouble with the law and runs away with the circus, an unremarkable occurrence for the time. But Jack Tigue is no ordinary boy. Working cons from the age of seven, he knows all there is to know about gulling suckers—and how to wield a razor.

Nevertheless, there’s still plenty more for Jack to learn. Particularly at the nimble hands of Selena, the sultriest snake charmer this side of the River Styx. In this most curious of books—a deft blending of Virgil’s Aeneid and Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus—a boy comes of age the hard way, blow upon blow. 

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