High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Predator Cities is the title of a tetralogy, sometimes called the Predator Cities Quartet, consisting of four novels, Mortal Engines (2001), Predator`s Gold (2003), Infernal Devices (2005), and A Darkling Plain (2006), written by the British author Philip Reeve. Originally known as the Mortal Engines Quartet, it was known in the US as the Hungry City Chronicles, though the author had stated that he did not like this series title.