![]() ![]() Things become more difficult once they reach Europe, where two boys who cannot even speak the local languages stand out as curiosities to be detained and if necessary, forcibly Capped. The English Channel is no great barrier the resistance has a network of agents. For certain values of well Will’s cousin Henry insists on coming along. The initial stages of Will’s escape go well. There is a refuge far beyond the channel that divides England from Europe. A conversation with a traveller (pretending to be one of the unlucky few whose minds are broken by Capping) sets Will on an entirely different path. Nothing about him suggested that he would not, as all the older children of the town did before him, submit to Capping at age thirteen, which would transform him into a docile, well-behaved adult. ![]() Will Parker’s childhood in the small village of Wherton was unremarkable. It has been decades since any human posed a serious threat to Tripod rule. ![]() 1967’s The White Mountains, 1968’s The City of Gold and Lead, and 1968’s The Pool of Fire constitute John Christopher’s Tripods trilogy.Ī century after the coming of the Tripods, humans are few, backward, and well-behaved. ![]()
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