Three years on from the events in The Golem's Eye, the magicians' rule in London is teetering on a knife-edge, with strikes, riots & general unrest. The Prime Minister is largely controlled by two advisors, one of whom is 17-year-old Nathaniel. Meanwhile, living under a false identity, Kitty has been researching djinn; she has come to believe that the only way to destroy the magicians is for an alliance of some kind between djinn & ordinary people.
Kitty seeks out Bartimaeus & embarks on a terrifying journey into the djinn's chaotic domain
- The Other Place
- which no human being has ever survived. But even as she does so, Makepeace engineers a dramatic coup d'etat.
The outcome is a shattering of the magicians'control & all magical laws are turned upside down.
Can Bartimaeus, Nathaniel & Kitty settle old scores if they are to survive & prevent the earth's destruction?