TY - BOOK AU - Pullman, Philip. 1946- TI - The subtle knife: : His dark materials book 2 SN - 0439954622 U1 - 823.914 PY - 2005///, c1997 CY - London PB - Scholastic Press KW - aka "The Golden Compass" KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Children's stories N1 - "Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on the run, determined to discover the truth about the father he has never known. Then Will steps through a window into another world - the dangerous world of Cittgazze, where soul-eating Spectres haunt the streets, and a strange, savage girl called Lyra Silvertongue is searching for Dust. Their meeting is no accident, for his mission and hers are linked in an extraordinary way. Together they must reach the mysterious tower, Torre degli Angeli, to find a powerful and secret object that people from many worlds would kill to possess..." -- BOOK JACKET; Sequel to: The golden compass; "His dark materials tenth anniversary 1995-2005"--Cover; Appendix material and endpapers designed and illustrated by Ian Beck ER -