Description: Fever Crumb, the stunning first novel in a new prequel series to Philip Reeve's brilliant science fantasy quartet, Mortal Engines, is now available in paperback. It is set many generations before the events of Mortal Engines, in whose dazzling world huge, predatory cities chase and devour each other. Now, London is a riot-torn, ruinous town, clinging to a devastated landscape and hiding an explosive secret. Is Fever, adopted daughter of Dr Crumb, the strange key that will unlock its dangerous mysteries?