A novel from the author of the famous 'Book Thief'! Markus Zusak began writing at 16, and by 30 he was already recognized as the most progressive and poetic novelist.

Ed Kennedy's life, as they say, was not going well. An ordinary taxi driver, a weak card player, and a completely useless heartbreaker, he probably would have spent his days uselessly in a backwater town if he hadn't, by chance, committed a heroic act, foiling a bank robbery...