In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Includes sneak preview of The Drowned Cities, a companion novel to Ship Breaker Originally published in hardcover in May 2010 by Little, Brown and Company