The author of the best-selling and critically beloved Mortal Engines quartet has written a stunning, stand-alone prequel.Fever Crumb is set many generations before the events of Mortal Engines, in whose brilliantly-imagined world massive, predatory Traction Cities chase and devour each other.Now London is a static, overcrowded, riot-torn powerhouse that hides an explosive secret. Is Fever, adopted daughter of Dr Crumb, the strange key that will unlock its dangerous mysteries?Mortal Engines is now a major motion picture from Peter Jacksons studio,WingNut Films and stars Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan & Hugo Weaving.