Will Parker

Will Parker is a young man who grew up in a small village in England after the Tripods conquered the Earth. Will was once good friends with one of his cousins, but his cousin was Capped and stopped being his friend. Will was scheduled to be Capped on his fourteenth birthday, but before that day a stranger came to his village and told him a group of un-Capped people lives in the White Mountains and that he could go there rather than submit to the Tripods. Will decided to leave, taking with him his cousin Henry, whom he disliked at the time, and a boy they met in France named Beanpole.

In a previous novel, Will had arrived in the White Mountains after having some trouble, including being forced to destroy a Tripod with a weapon he found from ancient times in a cave. Now Will and...