the city of gold and lead by john christopher

After that came a simple breakfast, and then the first study period of the day, lasting three hours.

Reveille, for those of us in the training cadre, was at six, and was followed by half an hour’s brisk exercise. Our lives were confined, but by no means idle. We wore furs when we were outside, but the rest of the time our normal clothing was enough.

Cool in summer, our deep caves were warm, by comparison, in winter. We did not need a great deal by way of heat, protected as we were by dozens, hundreds of yards of solid rock. Food had been stored, cattle and winter fodder taken into the inner recesses of the mountain which sheltered us. Preparations for the siege had been made long before. The grip of winter tightened around us, and it was to be more than half a year before those white bony fingers unclenched. In September there was a fall of snow which did not lie, but in the early days of October the snow came again, more heavily, and this time remained. ExcerptĮven when we first came to the White Mountains, in summer, the upper reaches of the Tunnel looked out over fields of snow and ice but at the lower end there were rocks and grass and a view of the glacier, stained brown with mud and dripping into rivulets that ran down to the valley, far far below. Without anyone to help him, Will must learn the secrets of the Tripods-and how to take them down-before they figure out that he’s a spy…and he can only pretend to be brainwashed for so long. That means journeying to the Tripod capital: the City of Gold and Lead.Īlthough the journey will be difficult, the real danger comes once Will is inside the city, where Tripods roam freely and humans are even more enslaved than they are on the outside. In order to save everyone else, Will and his friends want to take down the Tripods once and for all. But once there, they wonder about the world around them and how they are faring against the machines. They’d found a safe haven where the mechanical monsters called Tripods could not find them. When Will and his friends arrived at the White Mountains, they thought everything would be okay. Will and his friends return to the City of the Tripods-and risk their lives-in this second book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series.

The city of gold and lead by john christopher