Predator's Gold

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 and Hester have been using the Jenny Haniver, their deceased comrade Anna Fang's airship, to travel across the world trading and adventuring. The story begins when the two aviators meet Professor Pennyroyal aboard Airhaven, who persuades them to take him... more

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 and Hester have been using the Jenny Haniver, their deceased comrade Anna Fang's airship, to travel across the world trading and adventuring. The story begins when the two aviators meet Professor 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. However, they are fortunate enough to be rescued by Anchorage, once a thriving Traction city that relied primarily upon trade, but which has now been devastated by an excavated biological weapon that killed nearly all of the population. The city is now ruled by Freya Rasmussen, the young margravine who was suddenly thrust into power after her parents died from the plague. The... less