Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days

Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days--------------------------------------------------It's the fourth Skulduggery Pleasant adventure! only Skulduggery Pleasanthimself is lost on the other side of a portal, with only some evilgods for company. Can he possible survive? (Yes, all right, he's alreadydead. But still.) Skulduggery Pleasant is gone, sucked into a paralleldimension overrun by the Faceless Ones. If his bones haven't alreadybeen turned to dust, chances are he's insane, driven out of his mindby the horror of the ancient gods. There is no official, Sanctuary-approvedrescue mission. There is no official plan to save him. But Valkyrie'snever had much time for plans. The problem is, even if she can getSkulduggery back, there might not be much left for him to return to.There's a gang of villains bent on destroying the Sanctuary, thereare some very powerful people who want Valkyrie dead, and as if allthat wasn't enough it looks very likely that a sorcerer named Darquesseis going to kill the world and everyone on it. Skulduggery is gone.All our hopes rest with Valkyrie. The world's weight is on her shoulders,and its fate is in her hands. These are dark days indeed.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing hischildren's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrotethe screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. Ithink my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave, he says,or she would be if she were dead.