Travel back to 1703 with Skulduggery Pleasant in this standalone novel featuring all your favourite characters. So many enemies,so little time . . .
Italy,1703.
As the war with Mevolent rages on,the Dead Men are dispatched to a walled town in the Tuscan hills - not to assassinate the Lord of the Dark Sorcerers,but to save him. A rift has opened to a hellish dimension where a being of devastating power awaits,and only Mevolent is strong enough to seal it and save the world.
A simple mission,then,which turns ever-so-slightly trickier when Skulduggery is presented with the opportunity to finally get revenge on Nefarian Serpine,the man who murdered him and killed his family thirteen years earlier.
Return to the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in a short novel set hundreds of years before Valkyrie Cain is even born,and follow Skulduggery,Ghastly,Shudder,Ravel,Saracen,Dexter and Hopeless as they argue,bicker and battle their way through an army of their most hated enemies in order to save their oldest enemy so they can stop another,brand new,enemy...
And that's when things get complicated.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008585730Number of pages: 320Weight: 530 gDimensions: 240 x 159 x 29 mm
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Praise for the Skulduggery Pleasant series:
'A writer at the height of his powers... whatever your age,read them and enjoy the ride'- Irish Independent
'Fast and funny'- The Times
'Skulduggery Pleasant serves up a thoroughly satisfying blend of humour,magic and adventure'- Rick Riordan
'Landy's witty style will win him fans of all ages'- Irish Mail on Sunday
'Hugely enjoyable - a thrill-a-minute adventure'- Jonathan Stroud
'A fast evolving plot and a great mix of scariness and humour'- Sunday Express
'Exciting,pacy,nicely handled and fun'- Philip Ardagh,Guardian
'Gripping'- Observer
Derek Landy
As the helmsman of the wildly-successful Skulduggery Pleasant series,Derek Landy exchanged a life as a sometime writer of screenplays to,almost overnight,becoming one of the world's biggest names in children's fiction. Debuting in 2007,Skulduggery Pleasant took its readers on a wild ride to the undead,where the niece of a famous horror writer suddenly discovers that what he was writing wasn't so fictional after all. In 2015,Landy briefly stepped away from his Skulduggery duties to pen a fresh trilogy for young adults,Demon Road,and as something of a Whovian,contributed a tale to the Doctor Who collection 12 Doctors 12 Stories.
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