In this thrilling finale to His Dark Materials, the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife come to a heart-stopping conclusion. Along with the return of Lyra, Will, and Iorek Byrnison come a host of new characters and startling revelations: the painful price Lyra must pay to walk through the land of the dead, the haunting power of Dr. Malone’s amber spyglass, and the names of who will live — and die — for love. And all the while, war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle that — in its shocking, breathtaking outcome — deftly brings the cliff-hangers and mysteries of His Dark Materials to an earth-shattering conclusion.

This third and final volume of Pullman’s masterpiece confirms its place as a fantasy classic that readers young and old won’t be able to put down. Not since Tolkien has such a sweepingly original vision of a mythical realm been so brilliantly created.