Mortal Engines Quartet #1: Mortal Engines

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Mortal Engines Quartet #1: Mortal Engines

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Mortal Engines Quartet #1: Mortal Engines

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In a dangerous future, huge motorized cities hunt, attack and fight each other for survival. As London pursues a small town, young apprentice Tom is flung out into the wastelands, where a terrifying cyborg begins to hunt him down. The first book in the award-winning MORTAL ENGINES quartet.

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