The third volume in Philip Pullmans incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy. First published in 2000, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UKs top awards for childrens literature. "We are going to the land of the dead and we are going to come back." Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been, and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned...