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Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html THE INFERNAL DEVICES • Book One • Clockwork Angel Also by Cassandra Clare THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: City of Bones City of Ashes City of Glass MARGARET K. MCELDERRY BOOKS Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2010 by Cassandra Claire, LLC All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. MARGARETK. MCELDERRY BOOKSis a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866- 506-1949 or [email protected]. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website atwww.simonspeakers.com . Book design by Mike Rosamilia The text for this book is set in Dolly. Manufactured in the United States of America 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 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. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html 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 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html 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
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