From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is "clipping" - the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. From the bestselling author of "The Offing" and soon to be a six-part TV series.