# Ship Breaker

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- Book: [Ship Breaker](https://www.bookquiver.com/paolo-bacigalupi/ship-breaker) ([Ship Breaker.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paolo-bacigalupi/ship-breaker.md))
- Authors: [Paolo Bacigalupi](https://www.bookquiver.com/paolo-bacigalupi)
- Publisher: atom
- ISBN: 978-19-0741-110-6
- Published: 2012-05-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Nailer's time is running out. He's getting too big for his work - stripping copper wire from old oil tankers - and once he's off the crew he's on his own, stuck in a shack on the beach with no food, no money and no way of earning his keep. He has one last chance. The thing all crew members dream about, a lucky strike, has hit in the shape of a clipper ship beached during the last hurricane. If he can hold off the rest of the scavengers long enough to get the oil out, he might just have a future. But oil's not the only thing on the ship. And what Nailer finds is going to change his life forever.