Nailer's time is running out. He's getting too big for his work - stripping copper wire from old oil tankers - and once he's off the crew he's on his own, stuck in a shack on the beach with no food, no money and no way of earning his keep.
He has one last chance. The thing all crew members dream about, a lucky strike, has hit in the shape of a clipper ship beached during the last hurricane. If he can hold off the rest of the scavengers long enough to get the oil out, he might just have a future.
But oil's not the only thing on the ship. And what Nailer finds is going to change his life forever.
| ISBN: | 9781907411106 |
| Publication date: | 7th July 2011 |
| Author: | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| Publisher: | Atom an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 326 pages |
| Series: | Ship Breaker |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |