Action! Humor! Fantasy! "Kicking off a new series with a bang (several bangs, in fact), Stroud sends two young fugitives with murky pasts fleeing murderous pursuers across a fractured future Britain." Kirkus Reviews, starredScarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes by on bank heists, her witsand never looking back. Shes on the run from her latest crime when she comes across Albert Browne. He is the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and against her better judgement, Scarlett agrees to guide him to safety. This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarletts used to being chased by the law, but this is extreme. It was only a little bank shed robbed . . . As they flee together across the wilds, fighting off monstrous beasts, and dodging their pursuers, Scarlett comes to realize that Albert Browne is hiding a terrible secret. And that he may be the most dangerous threat of all. In this fast-paced, quick-witted whirlwind of a story, Jonathan Stroud introduces two unlikely alliesthe outlaws Scarlett and Brownewho are about to become the most notorious renegades in all thats left of Britain.