';The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings.' --The Oregonian Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father--but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart. A #1 New York Times Bestseller A Newsweek Top 100 Book of All Time An Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel ';The story gallops with ferocious momentum.' --The New York Times Book Review ';Pullman's imagination soars. . . . A literary rollercoaster ride you won't want to miss.' --The Boston Globe ';Destined to become a classic.' --Detroit Free Press ';The Subtle Knife is as absorbing and irresistible as The Golden Compass--and even more so, as powerful forces are set in motion. A brilliantly conceived work.' --Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles, and Newbery Medalist for The High King