A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar trip out of city. It’s not the start of a joke, but instead an espionage objective with deadly severe stakes. T. Kingfisher’s fresh novel begins the tale of the murderous band of scammers (and a scholar), tossed together in an attempt to unravel the secret from the Clockwork Kids, mechanical military from a neighboring kingdom that guarantee ruin to the Dowager’s city.

If they succeed, benefits and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy place, directly into the main city. In addition, it requires these to refrain from eliminating each other on the way! At converts darkly comic and coming in contact with, Clockwork Boys places together a broken group trying to help make the most of the rest of their lives as they travel forward on the suicide mission.