'A Darkling Plain' is the brilliant ending to an award-winning quartet that began with 'Mortal Engines'. It is six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton. Wren Natsworthy and her father have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Tom is troubled by Hester's disappearance and meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London ...