Publisher's Synopsis
Spring, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is dragged through the streets to the gallows at Tyburn. The crowds jeer as he passes, calling him a murderer. His name is Tom Hawkins and he is innocent. It is, of course, all his own fault. He should never have told the most dangerous criminal in London that he was "bored and looking for adventure". He should never have offered to help the king's mistress in her desperate struggles with a brutal husband. And most of all, he should never have trusted the calculating Queen Caroline. She has promised him a royal pardon if he holds his tongue but then again, there is nothing more silent than a hanged man...
