- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Point; New Ed edition (17 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0439977347
- ISBN-13: 978-0439977340
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 48,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Predator's Gold is the stunning sequel to the award-winning Mortal Engines and, incredibly, it is just as exciting and page-turning as its predecessor. Reeve's further stories of cities on wheels, flying over a ravaged future Earth are compelling--complete with characters that you care passionately for, action that leaves you lost for words and inventiveness that takes some beating.
Two years after their escape aboard the airship (the Jenny Haniver) at the end of Mortal Engines, Tom and Hester, now lovers, find themselves the twin objects of attention of a terrorist organisation called Green Storm. In the misguided belief that the grotesquely incomplete preserved body of their hero, Anna Fang, can be resurrected to ensure their anti-traction goals, they cite Tom and Hester as essential capture targets.
But when they take shelter aboard the once-magnificent city of Anchorage, after a bruising air battle with some of Green Storm's gun ships, Tom and Hester encounter a whole new set of problems. This prestigious ice city is heading disastrously towards America, the fabled Dead continent, under the guidance of the fraudulent explorer Pennyroyal. There is danger everywhere and the travellers must be careful to survive.
Sequels can sometimes disappoint, but the eagerly awaited Predator's Gold cannot be faulted. Reeve's exemplary novel has the depth to satisfy the most literary and demanding readers, and yet his story delivers enough verve and white-knuckle drama to keep the lighter readers well-served too. Neither is it a slight to describe this novel as full of old-fashioned adventure--because there is something reassuringly familiar about its accessibility. It has a whiff of the classic about it and that is certainly no bad thing. (Recommended for ages 10 and over.) --John McLay --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect, the Green Storm, Tom and Hester are left drifting in the frozen Ice Wastes, slowly dying of cold after the Jenny Haniver's engines have failed. They are saved at the last minute, finding Anchorage, a once-beautiful ice city that has fallen on hard times. Crippled by plague, there are barely fifty souls on Anchorage now, and the teenage margravine has made a desperate choice. They are heading for America, the Dead Continent...
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Mortal Engines was one of the best books that I have ever read but this was even better! Five stars is just not enough. I read this to my eight year old son, although it is actually teen fiction. He just couldn't get enough of it and would volunteer to go to bed early if I would read one chapter instead of two. Meanwhile my 13 year old daughter was waiting for her turn, and read it in a day.
I can't begin to outline the story line but if youv'e read Mortal Engines you will know about the strange future world in which it is set, where some cities are mobile and 'eat' other cities, recycling their building materials and enslaving the inhabitants. Pretators Gold introduces the characters of Caul (an Oliver Twist of the future)and Freya (the young orphaned ruler of Anchorage).
This is a rare modern adventure story that will appeal to girls as well as boys. With an non-soppy heroine who is not so strong that she doesn't let jealousy get the better of her. A hero who kills because he has to but has tremendous self doubt. And fantastical future world thought out in every detail.This far far more imaginative than Harry Potter. Buy it for everyone you know - adults as well as children.
I can't begin to outline the story line but if youv'e read Mortal Engines you will know about the strange future world in which it is set, where some cities are mobile and 'eat' other cities, recycling their building materials and enslaving the inhabitants. Pretators Gold introduces the characters of Caul (an Oliver Twist of the future)and Freya (the young orphaned ruler of Anchorage).
This is a rare modern adventure story that will appeal to girls as well as boys. With an non-soppy heroine who is not so strong that she doesn't let jealousy get the better of her. A hero who kills because he has to but has tremendous self doubt. And fantastical future world thought out in every detail.This far far more imaginative than Harry Potter. Buy it for everyone you know - adults as well as children.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As good as mortal engeins, which is an amazing acheivement in it's self this is the sequel to mortal engeins so make sure you've read mortal engines first. this book continues with tom and hesters adventure this time in the north where citys have adapted and attatched skis!!! I Won't give away the story line but i will say it is a brilliant read 10/10
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After resding and enjoying Philip Reeves' debut novel, the brilliant Mortal Engines, I was over the moon when I found that there was a sequel, but was slightly weary about being disappointed as it had so much to live up to. Thankfully Predators Gold is just as good and possibly even better, it's fantastical, clever and superbly written. Philip Reeves' narration and storytelling are wonderful and sometimes even quite moving.
The story starts with the two heroes from Mortal Engines, the brave and well mannered Lodon boy Tom Natsworthy and his fierce and hideously deformed friend Hester Shaw. Trouble starts when they pick up a tricky passenger by the name of Professor Pennyroyal, a respectable author who claims to have founded America. Things go from bad to worse as the ship (The Jenny Haniver) is shot at and is severely damaged. The crew, Hester, Tom and Pennyroyal escape on to a ruination of a city covered in ice and there they met the beautiful queen Frea. I won't tel you anymore because I don't want to spoil it! I will tell you that it includes betrayal, old enemies, kidnap, rescue, menacing machines, crooked gangs and some startling revelations. Predators Gold is a great book!
The story starts with the two heroes from Mortal Engines, the brave and well mannered Lodon boy Tom Natsworthy and his fierce and hideously deformed friend Hester Shaw. Trouble starts when they pick up a tricky passenger by the name of Professor Pennyroyal, a respectable author who claims to have founded America. Things go from bad to worse as the ship (The Jenny Haniver) is shot at and is severely damaged. The crew, Hester, Tom and Pennyroyal escape on to a ruination of a city covered in ice and there they met the beautiful queen Frea. I won't tel you anymore because I don't want to spoil it! I will tell you that it includes betrayal, old enemies, kidnap, rescue, menacing machines, crooked gangs and some startling revelations. Predators Gold is a great book!
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Outstanding adventure
involving and intriguing from the first page (the queen with the dead servants) to the last (sighting American land). Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. M. Jones
Not as good as the first.
In the wake of the destruction of london hester and tom are fleeing for there lives from the Green Storm, the new extremist anti traction league. Read more
Published 5 months ago by herenseti
Review of Predator's Gold
Predator's Gold is the sequel to Philip Reeve's brilliant sf/fantasy adventure, Mortal Engines. Its set in a post-apocalyptic world in which tractionism has evolved cities into... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Noor Jahangir
Amazing
Amazing is the word that sum this book up.
The whole Mortal Engines series is good but I think this one is my favourite. Read more
The whole Mortal Engines series is good but I think this one is my favourite. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Josh Turner
"Predator's Gold"
This second book in the series is a little slower than the first, but rather than being boring it serves to really flesh out the existing characters and the one or two new ones. Read more
Published 21 months ago by David Brookes
great second part
Predator's gold is a good second part to Mortal engines.
When things seemed to be going well, unexpected problemes get into Tom and Hester's way. Read more
When things seemed to be going well, unexpected problemes get into Tom and Hester's way. Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2009 by RAMON
Stunning sequel
Set 6 months after MORTAL ENGINES, Tom and Hester have set up an air trading business on the Jenny Hanniver. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2009 by quippe
I love this series
I read the first book in this series to my daughter a few years ago, and we both enjoyed it. She went on to read the rest of the series on her own, but last year I read the first... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2009 by Mrs. S. R. Wray
Good but not great
Tom and Hester are back, making their way in the strange world of Municipal Darwinism and traction cities. Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2008 by John Brown
EPIC! AMAZING!!
This book is absolutely amazing - AS good as Mortal Engines. I couldn't put it down, in fact, i got sunburnt because i was reading is so much in the sun! Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2008 by Louisa Brooks
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