SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT

LAST STAND of DEAD MEN Book 8

by DEREK LANDY

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New softcover book, 608 pages, published 2013. Suitable for children aged 9 and older

Skulduggery strolled towards Valkerie. "We're at war? " she asked. "So it would seem," he said ....

War has finally come. But it's not a war between good and evil, or light and dark - it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster, and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough. Allies turn to enemies, friends turn to foes, and Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the Dead Men if they're going to have any chance at all of maintaining the balance of power and getting to the root of a vast conspiracy that has been years in the making.

But while this war is only beginning, another war rages within Valkyrie herself. Her own dark side, the insanely powerful being known as Darquesse, is on the verge of rising to the surface. And if Valkyrie slips, even for a moment, then Darquesse will burn the world and everyone in it.

Skulduggery Pleasant Last Stand of Dead Men is Book 2 in The Darquesse trilogy.

About the author

Derek Landy was born in born 1973 in Ireland and lives near Dublin. He attended Drogheda Grammar School during his childhood years and has a black belt in kenpo karate. Before writing his bestselling children′s series about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film in which everybody dies. ′I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave,′ he says, ′or she would be if she were dead.′ Skulduggery Pleasant won the illustrious Red House Children's Book Award in 2008, with children voting for the winning novel.

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Skulduggery Pleasant Last Stand of Dead Men: Book 8 in the series by Derek Landy