The Dark Flight Down Book

In the morning you should think You might not last unto the night In the evening you should think You might not last unto the morn
Boy has survived the terrors of life with the magician Valerian, dark magic, and deadly chases, but he is still on the run. Now, as the City lies frozen, he is captured and incarcerated in the Emperor Frederick’s palace. Boy is transported to a world of splendor, and wealth beyond his wildest imagining. But beneath its golden veneer, this world is full of madness and cruelty, closely guarded secrets, and terrifying revelations.
In a mesmerizing conclusion to the enthralling story begun in The Book of Dead Days, Boy and Willow are plunged into the heart of it–the furies of the Emperor; the tricks of necromancers; a trail of blood that will lead to the grisly Phantom. Holding all their lives between its pages, The Book of Dead Days waits to deceive its next reader.

Publishers Weekly

Boy, the assistant to the magician Valerian, first introduced in The Book of Dead Days (PW wrote, "readers will get caught up in this exotic era and its creepy characters"), returns in The Dark Flight Down by Marcus Sedgwick. Now Valerian is dead, and Boy is captured and imprisoned in the palace of Emperor Frederick III, who is obsessed with finding a way to become immortal. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.