And Malcolm will brave any danger, and make shocking sacrifices, to bring her safely through the storm. Lyra is the kind of person who draws people in like magnets. All are asking about the same thing: a girl - just a baby - named Lyra. When she asks Malcolm to keep his eyes open, he sees suspicious characters everywhere: the explorer Lord Asriel, clearly on the run enforcement agents from the Magisterium a gyptian named Coram with warnings just for Malcolm and a beautiful woman with an evil monkey for a daemon. He finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust - and the spy it was intended for finds him. Malcolm and his daemon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new: intrigue. Malcolm's parents run an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy. Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of his groundbreaking novel The Golden Compass to expand on the story of Lyra, "one of fantasy's most indelible characters." ( The New York Times Magazine) "Too few things in our world are worth a seventeen year wait: The Book of Dust is one of them." ( The Washington Post) The Washington Post Best Audiobook of 2017
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