A brand-new stand-alone novel from the internationally best-selling author Philip Reeve. Ansel is a mute boy whose father 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 ...
Ages: 9+
