MORTAL ENGINES
New York : EOS, 2003.
Imagine a time, in the hopefully distant future, when cities prowl the earth preying on each other. Whole cities, like islands, mounted on tracs so they can hunt, or flee as the need arises on the great hunting ground that earth has become.
Thaddeus Valentine, the famous historian and archeologist of the great traction city of London, and his daughter Katherine are down in the gut when a young assassin with a black scarf strikes. Only the quick intervention of Tom, a lowly 3rd class apprentice saves Valentine from sure death. Racing after the fleeing girl, tom glimpses her hideously scarred face. "Look at what your Valentine did to me!" she screams. "Ask him! Ask him what he did to Hester Shaw!" Moments later she disappears down a waste chute and Tom, unable to stop, tumbles after her. He lands on a sea of mud scored by huge caterpillar tracks and watches as the great city that was his home churns off into the distance. How to survive? What is there in Out-Country? It looks to be a desolate wasteland. And why did the girl with the scarred face want to kill their hero?
Book 1 of The Hungry City Chronicles. (New Hampshire Isinglass Teen Read Award committee)
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