Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines #1) [Paperback]

The epic city-eat-city adventure is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!

A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester Shaw is a heroine for the ages. The moment we finished reading this book we knew we wanted to make it into a movie. -- Producer Peter Jackson

* Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination. --School Library Journal, starred review

Now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!

London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed.

In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage -- and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.

Beloved storyteller Philip Reeve creates a brilliant new world in the Mortal Engines series, called phenomenal... violent and romantic, action-packed and contemplative, funny and frightening by theSunday Times.

Praise for the Mortal Engines series:

* Exciting and visually descriptive. --School Library Journal, starred review

A page-turner, this adventure in a city-eat-city world will have readers eagerly suspending disbelief to follow the twists and turns of the imaginative plot. --Booklist

Big, brave, brilliant. --Guardian(UK)

* Reeve's [Mortal Engines Quartet] remains a landmark of visionary... imagination. --School Library Journal, starred review

Phenomenal... violent and romantic, action-packed and contemplative, funny and frightening. --Sunday Times(UK)

Philip Reeve is the bestselling author of the Mortal Engineslƒ˝