Lyra and Will are in unspeakable danger. With help from Iorek the armoured bear and two tiny spies, they must journey to a world where no living soul has gone. All the while, Dr Mary Malone builds a magnificent amber spyglass. An assassin hunts her down. And Lord Asriel, with troops of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living, and the dead, comes to rest on the two children. Suggested audience: intermediate, secondary.