| Summary: | She can run a business, ride like a Cossack and shoot straight with a pistol. Sally Lockhart is the bold, fresh heroine of this thrilling and terrifying tale from Philip Pullman, award-winning writer of the acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy, also adapted for the big screen. Sally, recently orphaned, is alone and being hunted by an assassin. With her new friends - young photographer Frederick and quick-witted street child Jim - she must discover her father's killer. Facing them is an unseen, murderous opponent and at the heart of it all, the deadly, blood-drenched secret of the ruby in the smoke. Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.
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