This was an enjoyable twisty historical fiction! Good character development and the historical London details kept me wanting to know more.

A compelling story.
Many thanks to Tenderfoot and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I found the subject interesting, the tale of a young man brought up in the silk trade who moves to London and becomes a 'coffee racketeer' to help his father. At first I found it well written, evocative of its era, but then came the grammatical errors ... These (very) common errors should have been edited out, and while they are bad enough in a modern story I found them particularly jarring in a historical one. I tried to overlook them but there were really too many, and I'm afraid I gave up about a third of the way through.
Thank you to the publisher for a review copy.