Mayor Prentiss, who now goes by President Prentiss, has limited the knowledge behind the cure to the leaders of the town. Ledger tells him that Haven discovered a cure for a destructive verbal technology, called Noise, which plagued its people in the events of the previous novel. Hewitt is imprisoned in the town’s clock tower, along with the previous mayor, now a political hostage, Con Ledger. He thinks little of his arrest, being more concerned about the fate of his friend Viola. Hewitt is arrested by the army of the Mayor of Haven, which has been renamed New Prentisstown. The novel picks up immediately where The Knife of Never Letting Go leaves off. As he tries to secure his escape, Hewitt also has to stop the war-mongering mayor’s desire to transform people into fighting machines. It follows the young protagonist Todd Hewitt, a thirteen-year-old boy held hostage by the mayor of a dystopian city called New Prentisstown. The second book in a series called Chaos Walking, it follows the events of the novel The Knife of Never Letting Go and precedes Monsters of Men. The Ask and the Answer is a 2009 work of science fiction for young adults written by Patrick Ness.
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