"Will heard a hideous crack, and didn't stop to wonder about it. With the help of the witches and now also angels, Will and Lyra set off on this new and very dangerous quest.
Now they must find Will's father in order to put things right in Will's world and help his mother, but Mrs Coulter, who Lyra has already learnt is her real but not naturally maternal mother, has other plans for Lyra and is determined to destroy her. It soon becomes clear her and Will's meeting is not merely coincidence as Will becomes the successor to the previous owner of the Subtle Knife, which was made and resides in the City of Citigazze and is the key to opening an infinite number of windows to an infinite number of other worlds. Lyra has her Althiometer stolen and must retrieve something call the Subtle Knife in order to get it back. It is here he meets Lyra Belacqua, our heroine from the first book, who has traveled through the window from her world through the Northern Lights. Cittigazze is the City he stumbles across but all is not well here, the place is deserted apart from a small, wild band of children who talk of spectres chasing away the adults. With his mother placed in the care of his old piano teacher Will ventures off and soon stumbles across a window to another world. After a scuffle with these mystery men, when they break into Will's home, one of the agents is accidentally killed and now Will must run for his life and try to find his father in order to help him and his mother. The sequel to Northern Lights, this is the second book in the 'His Dark Materials' Trilogy and introduces the character of Will Parry, a young boy who lives in Oxford (our world) with his ailing and increasingly confused mother and now on the run from a number of 'men in black' who seem to be searching for some letters sent from his missing explorer father, whom Will and his mother has not seen or heard from for years.
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