Thunder City (A Mortal Engines Novel)
Philip Reeve
Disponibilité:
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.
Éditeur:
Scholastic Inc.
Scholastic Inc.
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2024
2024
ISBN-13:
9781546138242
Description:
<P><B>An edge-of-your seat adventure set in the iconic world of Mortal Engines!</B></P><P></P><P>Tamzin Pook is a fighter in the Amusement Arcade. And what she does best is killing Revenants.</P><P></P><P>All she knows is survival, having arrived in the Arcade as a small child. She pushes away her memories, her hopes, and her fears, and she emerges into the arena to battle the Revenants--dead brains nestled in armored engine bodies. She doesn't dare to hope or wish for anything more than to survive another day.</P><P></P><P>Meanwhile, the wheeled city of Motoropolis has been taken over by a rebel faction who killed its leaders and commandeered the city. Its only hope is a teacher named Miss Torpenhow who's determined to find the Mayor's good-for-nothing son and force him to take back what's rightfully his. But to get to him, she'll need to find someone who's skilled at fighting Revenants.</P><P></P><P>With a daring abduction, Miss Torpenhow and Tamzin Pook's destinies are entwined, and so begin their adventures together...</P><P></P><P>This stand-alone Mortal Engines novel follows an unlikely crew of fighters-turned friends: Tamzin Pook, Hilly Torpenhow, mayor-to-be Max Angmering, and washed-up mercenary Oddington Doom. Together, they must find a way to outwit the assassins that are determined to drag Tamzin back to the arcade, and try to take back Motoropolis.</P><P></P><P>Readers, hold onto your seats-it's going to be a wild ride.</P>
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