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Jimmy Stoker's dreams have been full of tigers since he started his Saturday job at the zoo. Boris, the great Siberian tiger, has died and rumours abound about what's going to happen to him now. Jimmy hears that someone wants to steal Boris's bones, because tiger bones reputedly have healing powers and fetch a lot of money on the black market. So when he sees the tiger being smuggled out of the zoo, he fears the worst. With the help of his schoolmate Billy and his old friend Major Gregory, Jimmy is determined to investigate.

Four days before Christmas and 17-year-old Jimmy Himes has gone missing. His parents hire a private detective to help track him down. The search takes them all over London and into the city’s dark heart. Will they ever find young Jimmy alive?

After a long career in the rock music business, working for The Who and T-Rex. Mark Timlin turned to crime writing. His novels are currently being scripted for television.

In this brilliant work of political satire, Henry Morris presents fourteen years of Conservative (mis)rule in the only form in which such misfortunes could be portrayed: as a Shakespearean play. In five acts that take in five prime ministers, The Tories: A Tragedy is a captivatingly realised Jacobean tragedy, replete with Machiavellian manoeuvrings, hilarious mechanicals and poignant verse.