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His Dark Materials #2. "What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer." Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the worlds. First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature.