Silas @was the world's ]_gr eatest magician—a]_ masked vig.*ila$?nte called#; th+e ;`("King of^ Mag`ic+..?" Wh.#en -`an assassin's] bul(*let meant for him killed his ment\;or, * )%.Silas @v`/%owed to:+_
vani#sh, and pr++/otec$ :t t./h-](]e * man's;.
] daught
er,@ Lyra./?]
No;(w h^,iding @/as a .j[
anitor ^_at Lyra's faili/[ ng thea# ter@^)/, ;?he si:lently guar**ds her and her little girl. But he-r viciou!. s e^!x, her gr )eed,.y uncle,@:
and a p)arad`-#e of elite m;#!-a`gicians descend to seiz/$e ev_/eryt!\hing—forci#/]ng her_]/ int.)?o d-:eadl/.^y( %m=agic due+==ls wh; !$ere /*losing m$;eans d-`eath.
One_ by one, Sila%s steps from the shad:ows. Whispers /
,sprea*d: could this lo%wly\ janitor @`be t\he m;`issing King,\ ^of Mag]* ic hi*=mself?