Clockwork Angel

364 Pages·2016·1.4 MB·Dutch

by  Cassandra Clare

THE INFERNAL DEVICES
• Book One •
Clockwork Angel
Also by Cassandra Clare
:
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS
City of Bones
City of Ashes
City of Glass

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clare, Cassandra.
Clockwork angel / Cassandra Clare.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(The infernal devices ; bk. 1)
Summary: When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Gray’s older brother suddenly
vanishes,
her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London’s dangerous supernatural
underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must
learn to trust
the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her
powers and find her brother.
ISBN 978-1-4169-7586-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4424-0946-0 (eBook)
[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Demonology—Fiction. 3. Orphans—Fiction.
4. Secret societies—Fiction. 5. London (England)—History—19th century—Fiction.
6. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C5265Cl 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2010008616
For Jim and Kate
Thames River Song
A note of salt
slips in and the river rises,
darkening to the color of tea,
swelling to meet the green.
Above its banks the cogs and wheels
of monstrous machines
clank and spin, the ghost within
vanishes into its coils,
whispering mysteries.
Each tiny golden cog has teeth,
each great wheel moves
a pair of hands which take
the water from the river,
devour it, convert it into steam,
coerce the great machine to run
on the force of its dissolution.
Gently, the tide is rising,
corrupting the mechanism.
Salt, rust and silt
slowing the gears.
Down at the banks
the iron tanks
sway into their moorings
with the hollow boom
of a gigantic bell,
of drum and cannon
which cry out in a tongue of thunder
and the river rolls under.
—Elka Cloke
THE INFERNAL DEVICES
• Book One •
Clockwork Angel