When Tom saves the Head Historian of London from a knife attack he unwittingly becomes a part of a great conspiracy. And he suffers for it fast.
London is one of the bigger Traction Cities, mechanized cities that wander the land devouring smaller towns, using them for parts and enslaving their people.
The whole mobile cities eating other cities was new to me (even though this book came out in 2001, I hadn't hear about it) and having the two main characters, Tom and Hester, being on the run in a waste land wherein they would have to find a town or city and then find some way to board said town or city made for an interesting story. The movie is out now (gone now?) and I may see it someday. I look forward to reading the second volume in "The Hungry Cities Chronicles", Predator's Gold.
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