The tremendous climax of the Bartimaeus sequence 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 advisers 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 with an alliance 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 to prevent the earth's destruction?