Ptolemy's Gate

<p>The tremendous climax of the Bartimaeus sequence. <br><br>Three years on from the events in <i>The Golem's Eye</i> the magicians' rule in London is teetering on a knife-edge with strikes riots and general unrest. The Prime Minister is largely controlled by two advisers one of whom is 17-year-old Nathaniel. Meanwhile living under a false identity Kitty has been researching djinn; she has come to believe that the only way to destroy the magicians is with an alliance between djinn and ordinary people.<br><br>Kitty seeks out Bartimaeus and embarks on a terrifying journey into the djinn's chaotic domain – the Other Place – which no human being has ever survived. But even as she does so Makepeace engineers a dramatic coup d'etat.<br><br>The outcome is a shattering of the magicians' control and all magical laws are turned upside down. Can Bartimaeus Nathaniel and Kitty settle old scores to prevent the earth's destruction?</p>