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The Nine Pound Hammer
The Nine Pound Hammer (The Clockwork Dark, Book 1)
The Nine Pound Hammer
John Claude Bemis
What if John Henry had a son?Twelve-year-old Ray is haunted by the strangest memories of his father, whom Ray swears could speak to animals. Now an orphan, Ray jumps from a train going through the American South and falls in with a medicine show train and its stable of sideshow performers. The performers turn out to be heroes, defenders of the wild, including the son of John Henry. They are hiding the last of the mythical Swamp Sirens from an ancient evil known as the Gog. Why the Gog wants the Siren, they can’t be sure, but they know it has something to do with rebuilding a monstrous machine that John Henry gave his life destroying years before, a machine that will allow the Gog to control the will of men and spread darkness throughout the world.From the Hardcover edition.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Series

Age Level: 

  • 8 - 12
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The Nine Pound Hammer is a book for those who crave adventure, or just love adventure books. The main character, Ray Fleming, leaps from a moving train to follow the magnetic pull of his father's lodestone. He encounters magics told of only in tales that took place long ago. Ray's father vanishing, The Gog's evil forces , everything comes together in one gigantic whirlwind of excitement and adventure.

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