The Subtle Knife

My hands shook, turning the pages.“ The nTimes n n“Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with nsuch intensity and drama. I’m delighted with this vision of my nstory.“ Philip Pullman n nThe second volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials ntrilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover ncreatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin. n n“What is he? A friend, or an enemy?“He is a murderer.“Will has just killed a man. He’s on the run. n nHis escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie ndisquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely nlinked to his own, and together they must find the most npowerful weapon in all the worlds… n nRankin’s lens has exquisitely captured the bond between ncharacter and daemon; the soul of the stories n nThe His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationally nbestselling and a modern classic. n nNow a major BBC/HBO television series, with an all-star cast nof Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff and Lin-Manuel Miranda n n