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Hell Breaks Loose Synopsis
Travel back to 1703 with Skulduggery Pleasant in this standalone story featuring all your favorite characters. So many enemies, so little time . . .
'Derek Landy, a master juggler of scary and funny, has done it again with a twisty mini-masterpiece' The Times
Italy, 1703. As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a town in the Tuscan hills - not to assassinate the Lord of the Dark Sorcerers, but to save him. A rift has opened to a hellish dimension, and only Mevolent is strong enough to seal it and save the world.
A simple mission, then, which turns ever-so-slightly trickier when Skulduggery is presented with the opportunity to finally get revenge on Nefarian Serpine, the man who murdered him and killed his family thirteen years earlier.
Return to the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in a short novel set hundreds of years before Valkyrie Cain is even born, and follow Skulduggery, Ghastly, Shudder, Ravel, Saracen, Dexter and Hopeless as they argue, bicker and battle their way through an army of their most hated enemies in order to save their oldest enemy so they can stop another, brand new, enemy…
And that's when things get complicated.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780008601249 |
| Publication date: |
1st February 2024 |
| Author: |
Derek Landy |
| Publisher: |
HarperCollins Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
307 pages |
| Series: |
The Skulduggery Pleasant Series |
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Press Reviews
Derek Landy Press Reviews
Praise for the Skulduggery Pleasant series:
'A writer at the height of his powers . . . Whatever your age, read them and enjoy the ride' Irish Independent
'Fast and funny' The Times
'Skulduggery Pleasant serves up a thoroughly satisfying blend of humour, magic and adventure' Rick Riordan
'Landy's witty style will win him fans of all ages' Irish Mail on Sunday
'Hugely enjoyable - a thrill-a-minute adventure' Jonathan Stroud
'A fast evolving plot and a great mix of scariness and humour' Sunday Express
'Exciting, pacy, nicely handled and fun' Philip Ardagh, Guardian
'Gripping' Observer
'A remarkably accomplished debut with wonderful dialogue' Irish Times
'A rip-roaring adventure' Irish Sunday Independent
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About Derek Landy
Derek Landy is far too modest to talk about any awards or accolades his books may have won. He will not, for instance, mention the fact that his first book, Skulduggery Pleasant, won the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book of the Decade Award AND the Red House Children's Book Award, or that his second, Playing With Fire, won an Irish Book Award for Children's Book of the Year, or that his third, The Faceless Ones, is his mother's personal favourite. He could go on, all the way to The End of the World, which is the title of the story he wrote for World Book Day 2012, but he won’t.
He lives in Ireland with a variety of cats, a German Shepherd, and two geriatric Staffordshire Bull Terriers who keep peeing on his kitchen floor because they think it's funny.
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