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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Tom, Ratsey, Mobius entitled The Devil and His Boy?
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conversations.value: The Devil and His Boy: The book follows Thomas "Tom" Falconer, a young and somewhat naive boy that works at a pub and is mistreated by his caretakers, Sebastian and Henrietta Slope.\nHe tolerates their abuse with the awareness that there are those worse off than he is.\nThis helps draw the attention of wealthy traveler William Hawkins, who attempts to purchase Tom from his caretakers, who refuse.\nMeanwhile Sebastian decides to plan with the highwayman Ratsey to steal William\'s treasure by waiting for him in the woods.\nSebastian later tries to kill William for attempting to steal Tom away to London.\nWilliam defeats Sebastian but is later killed by Ratsey\'s ambush.\nTom\'s horse spooks during the encounter and through a series of events, ends up in a pub far from home where he\'s cared for by the pub\'s landlord and one of the cooks.\nHe continues on to London, where he sees Ratsey and knows that he is there with the purpose of killing Tom.\nTom tries to gain employment, but is horrified by one of the jobs he manages to find, which is to cripple children to gain sympathy while begging.\nHe\'s later befriended by the thief Moll Cutpurse, who gives him clothes and takes him to the theater, where he meets William Shakespeare.\nTom ends up agreeing to perform in the play The Devil and his Boy for a foreign man named dr Mobius, but swiftly notices that something is very strange with Mobius and the other performers.\nAll have a cross tattooed onto their arms and Mobius gives money to a strange disguised man.\nWhile rehearsing and preparing for the play, Tom is again attacked by Ratsey and is warned by Mobius\'s nephew to leave before it\'s too late.\nTom choose to ignore this and later goes on to perform the play for Queen Elizabeth I, who applauds his performance.\nHowever the glow from this praise is short lived when Tom realizes that the performing group is actually a group of assassins out to kill the Queen.\nTom manages to keep Mobius from assassinating her, only to still be imprisoned in Newgate.\nTom is later saved by the intervention of Ratsey and Moll, who remembers Tom talking about William\'s last words to him, telling him to go to Moorfield.\nShe realizes that this is the name of a British Lord.\nThey contact the man, who gets the Queen to intervene and save Tom from being executed.\nIt\'s later revealed that Tom is her grandson, the Queen having had an illegitimate child who was Thomas\'s father.\nTom encourages her to release Mobius\'s nephew, as he was largely innocent of the crimes against her, and spends the rest of his days acting and living with Shakespeare.