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In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.

While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world.

Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.

When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London--the city on wheels--is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain, and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.

Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.

Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.

Presents the fourth volume of the "Hungry City Chronicles" in which Tom Natsworthy and his daughter Wren learn that the city of London is being secretly rebuilt after a major devastation.

London became a predator city in a distant future where great cities were mobile.