Publisher's Synopsis
At the tender age of fourteen, loveable rogue Tom Kipper is thrust from the schoolroom of St Joseph's Academy of Hard Knocks into the adult world of work. Armed with advice from his God-fearing Irish mother, he soon finds himself in the heart of Liverpool as an office boy at El Paso Corned Beef Inc. With the Blitz at its height, life in the city is full of adventure, with air raids to watch and money to be made. He even gets his picture in the paper - but what will his Ma say when she sees he's been arrested as a Nazi undercover agent?
