Author(s): Philip Reeve

Young Adult Fiction

Ansel is a mute boy whose fatehr sells him to a travelling dragon-slayer. But Brock is a cynical storyteller, planning to make money by protecting a mountain town from the monster that's said to threaten it. He knows full well that dragons don't exist, and that gullible people do. Then they find that there is indeed a huge creature that makes its lair in the icy peaks. It's evil and terrifying, with one thought in its cunning brain - to devour them...

A brand new stand-alone novel from internationally best-selling Philip Reeve.