Reeve’s highly imaginative science fiction adventure series The Hungry City Chronicles, which is set in a postapocalyptic future, comes to a conclu sion with the creation of New London from the ruins of the once-mighty traction city. Now there is the promise of lasting peace between the Traction Cities and the airborne armies of the Green Storm of the stationary Anti Tractionist cities. Treachery, sabotage, intrigue (and touches of humor) abound in the fourth book of this most satisfying series. 2008 USBBY Out standing International Books List, 2006 Guardian’s Children’s Fiction Prize. ca

Originally published by Scholastic Great Britain, in 2006.

The once-great traction city of London is now just a radioactive wreck, a ruin haunted by electrical discharges and the dashed hopes of the people who once called it home—people like Tom Natsworthy. Twenty years after he fled, intending never to return, he discovers that something stirs in the remains of the old city.

Tom and his daughter, Wren, aren't the only people interested in London. The desperate armies of the Traction Cities and the Green Storm are also closing in, certain that whatever is taking shape within the city holds the key to victory in their never-ending war.

But it may be too late. Even as Tom and Wren hurry to uncover the mystery of London, Hester Shaw—estranged from her husband and her daughter—tracks the resurrected Stalker Fang, who has found another way to end the war and all life on the planet once and for all.