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CONTENTS
Front Cover
 
Praise for Philip Reeve’s novels
About the Author
By Philip Reeve
 
Mortal Engines Cover
Mortal Engines Title page
Mortal Engines Dedication
Mortal Engines PART ONE
Mortal Engines PART TWO
Mortal Engines Acknowledgements
 
Predator’s Gold Cover
Predator’s Gold Title page
Predator’s Gold Dedication
Predator’s Gold PART ONE
Predator’s Gold PART TWO
Predator’s Gold PART THREE
Predator’s Gold Acknowledgements
 
Infernal Devices Cover
Infernal Devices Title page
Infernal Devices Dedication
Infernal Devices PART ONE
Infernal Devices PART TWO
Infernal Devices Acknowledgements
 
A Darkling Plain Cover
A Darkling Plain Epigraph
A Darkling Plain Title page
A Darkling Plain Dedication
A Darkling Plain PART ONE
A Darkling Plain PART TWO
A Darkling Plain PART THREE
A Darkling Plain PART FOUR
A Darkling Plain Acknowledgements
Back Ad – Predator Cities and Sequels
 
Traction Codex Title Page
Traction Codex The Traction Era
Traction Codex Timeline
Traction Codex Glossary
 
Copyright
For Sarah
PART ONE
1THE HUNTING GROUND
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.
In happier times, London would never have bothered with such feeble prey. The great Traction City had once spent its days hunting far bigger towns than this, ranging north as far as the edges of the Ice Waste and south to the shores of the Mediterranean. But lately prey of any kind had started to grow scarce, and some of the larger cities had begun to look hungrily at London. For ten years now it had been hiding from them, skulking in a damp, mountainous, western district which the Guild of Historians said had once been the island of Britain. For ten years it had eaten nothing but tiny farming towns and static settlements in those wet hills. Now, at last, the Lord Mayor had decided that the time was right to take his city back over the land-bridge into the Great Hunting Ground.
It was barely halfway across when the look-outs on the high watch-towers spied the mining town, gnawing at the salt-flats twenty miles ahead. To the people of London it seemed like a sign from the gods, and even the Lord Mayor (who didn’t believe in gods or signs) thought it was a good beginning to the journey east, and issued the order to give chase.
The mining town saw the danger and turned tail, but already the huge caterpillar tracks under London were starting to roll faster and faster. Soon the city was lumber ............

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