Hellraisers (39 page)
Authors: Alexander Gordon Smith
“And Mammon will be there,” added Night. “Maybe another wormbag or two.”
“And the demons,” said Truck, turning left onto the deserted parkway. “Don't forget the demons.”
“So, the four of us against all the armies of hell,” said Marlow, nodding. “Why wouldn't we be optimistic?”
Pan leaned over and thumped him on the shoulder, but she was smiling now, the sight of it like the first golden rays of dawn peeking over the horizon. Smiling and laughing, all of them laughing, like birdsong as they drove into the night.
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Alexander Gordon Smith
is the author of the Escape from Furnace series, including
Lockdown
and
Solitary.
Born in 1979 in Norwich, England, he always wanted to be a writer. After experimenting in the service and retail trades for a few years, Smith decided to go to University. He studied English and American Literature at the University of East Anglia, and it was here that he first explored his love of publishing. Along with poet Luke Wright, he founded
Egg Box Publishing,
a groundbreaking magazine and press that promotes talented new authors. He also started writing literally hundreds of articles, short stories and books ranging from Scooby Doo comic strips to world atlases, Midsomer Murders to X-Files. The endless research for these projects led to countless book ideas germinating in his head. His first book,
The Inventors,
written with his nine-year-old brother Jamie, was published in the U.K. in 2007. He lives in England. You can sign up for email updates
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Contents
How the Hell Did We Get to Budapest?
Your Mission, If You Choose to Accept It â¦
Also by Alexander Gordon Smith
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010
Text copyright © 2015 Alexander Gordon Smith
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2015
eBook edition, December 2015
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Smith, Alexander Gordon, 1979â author.
    The Devil's engine: Hellraisers / Alexander Gordon Smith. â First edition.
        pages cm.
    Summary: Marlow Green is a high school boy in New York who is always in trouble for vandalism and acting out, until one day he stumbles into the middle of a battle with a demon, and learns about the Devil's engineâan ancient machine which can grant anything you wish for, in exchange for your soul.
    ISBN 978-0-374-30169-9 (hardcover)
    ISBN 978-0-374-30171-2 (e-book)
    1. DemonologyâJuvenile fiction.  2.  MonstersâJuvenile fiction.  3.  High schoolsâJuvenile fiction.  4.  Science fiction.  5.  Adventure stories.  6.  New York (N.Y.)âJuvenile fiction.  [1.  Science fiction.  2.  DemonologyâFiction.  3.  MonstersâFiction.  4.  High schoolsâFiction.  5.  SchoolsâFiction.  6.  Adventure and adventurersâFiction.  7.  New York (N.Y.)âFiction.]  I.  Title.  II.  Title: Hellraisers.
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eISBN 9780374301712
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