The knife of never letting go is a young adult science fiction novel written by british american author patrick ness it was published by walker books on 5 may 2008 it is the first book in the chaos walking series followed by the ask and the answer and monsters of men . The knife of never letting go is a young adult science fiction novel written by british american author patrick ness it was published by walker books on 5 may 2008 todd hewitt is the only boy left in prentisstown a small settlement on new world an alien planet only recently colonized by humanity. Geschreven bij the knife of never letting go resume todd hewitt is the only boy in a town of men ever since the settlers were infected with the noise germ todd can hear everything the men think and they hear everything he thinks. The premise of the knife of never letting go is that finding what i presume is our current world is corrupt and evil so god fearing folk have travelled to a new world where they plan to go back to basics and live clean good lives but it doesnt exactly go to plan