Predator's Gold
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| Author | Philip Reeve |
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| Cover artist | David Frankland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Mortal Engines Quartet |
| Genre | Steampunk, Adventure novel |
| Publisher | Scholastic |
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Publication date
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2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 316 pp |
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| OCLC | 56642251 |
| Preceded by | Mortal Engines |
| Followed by | Infernal Devices |
Predator's Gold is the second of four novels in Philip Reeve's series for young adults, the Mortal Engines Quartet.
Predator's Gold is set two years after Mortal Engines. In that time, lovers Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw have been using the Jenny Haniver, their deceased comrade Anna Fang's airship, to travel across the world trading and adventuring.
Tom and Hester meet adventurer and author Nimrod Pennyroyal aboard Airhaven, who persuades them to take him as a passenger. They are soon pursued by airships of the Green Storm, a fanatical splinter group of the Anti-Traction League, and drift helplessly over the Ice Wastes. They are rescued by Anchorage: once a thriving Traction City that relied primarily upon trade, but now devastated by an excavated biological weapon. The survivors have set a course for North America, which has been a radioactive wasteland since the Sixty Minute War. The city is ruled by Freya Rasmussen, who treats all three of them as honoured guests. Tom and Hester rebuild the Jenny Haniver. Hester is jealous of his growing closeness to Freya, and disturbed by the sightings of "ghosts" in the city. Eventually she sees Tom kissing Freya, and flies away from the city in the Jenny Haniver. Thereafter Hester sells Anchorage's course to Piotr Masgard, the leader of the "Huntsmen" of the Traction City of Arkangel, who intends to capture the city through an airship invasion; but insists that when Arkangel eats Anchorage, Tom will be returned to her. As she returns to the Jenny Haniver, however, she is drugged and kidnapped by a Green Storm informant.
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