The viaduct child is Dushma, a teenage girl living in hiding from the authorities high above the roof-tops of a neo-Gothic London.

Hers is a world of secretive technology and state-sanctioned prejudice. She's always known she's different, but when the hunt begins she comes to realize she might also be dangerous.

In Electric Dragon her adventures take her from her viaduct home to the heights of St Gotha's Cathedral and the depths of long-forgotten Hitler Street station. Not everyone will get out alive ... and waiting for those that do is the fireglass machine.

Patrick Wood's novels are thrilling, vividly descriptive, morally complex and sometimes bitterly comic. They are suitable for teenagers and adults alike.