Ship Breaker Av Paolo Bacigalupi

<p>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>But oil''s not the only thing on the ship. And what Nailer finds is going to change his life forever.</p>