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The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker by Lucy Moore
Jack Sheppard, burglar and escapologist extraordinaire, and Jonathan Wild, a gang boss who for twelve years convinced the Establishment of his probity, were criminals as famous in their time as Dick Turpin.
Now be taken deep into their world - the gaudy, bawdy, rowdy and dangerous London underworld of the early eighteenth century - and see how in that violent yet oddly intimate society two very different criminals, who brought about each other's downfall, could in the process achieve immortality in the popular imagination.
Lucy Moore was born in 1970. She was brought up and educated in Britain and the United States before reading history at Edinburgh University.
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