It's the fourth Skulduggery Pleasant adventure! only Skulduggery Pleasant himself is lost on the other side of a portal, with only some evil gods for company. Can he possible survive? (Yes, all right, he's already dead. But still.) Skulduggery Pleasant is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension overrun by the Faceless Ones. If his bones haven't already been turned to dust, chances are he's insane, driven out of his mind by the horror of the ancient gods. There is no official, Sanctuary-approved rescue mission. There is no official plan to save him. But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans. The problem is, even if she can get Skulduggery back, there might not be much left for him to return to. There's a gang of villains bent on destroying the Sanctuary, there are some very powerful people who want Valkyrie dead, and as if all that wasn't enough it looks very likely that a sorcerer named Darquesse is 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.
Derek Landy es demasiado modesto para hablar de los premios que han ganado sus libros, o de todos los galardones que humildemente despliega en la repisa de su chimenea. Tampoco mencionará, por supuesto, el hecho de que su primer libro, Skulduggery Pleasant, obtuvo el Premio Bord Gais Energy Irish Book of the Decade Y el Red House Children's Book Award, o que su segundo libro, Jugando con fuego, ganó el premio al Libro Infantil del Año en Irlanda, o incluso que su tercera obra, Los Sin Rostro, es el favorito de su madre. Derek juega demasiado con viedeojuegos, lee demasiados cómics y ve demasiadas películas. A veces habla con gente real, pero solo cuando es absolutamente necesario. Vive en Irlanda con cantidad de gatos, un pastor alemán, y dos bull terriers de geriátrico a los que les sigue pareciendo que hacer pipí en el suelo de su cocina es divertido.