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| This cover refers to The Bartimaeus Trilogy because the fourth novel in the series hadn't been written at the time of Samarkand's original publication. |
In the early 2000s in London, magicians rule government, commerce, and the upper echelons of society. They summon spirits of various types and changeable shapes to do their bidding and bind the 'demons' to their will through the use of magical pentacles and incense. Magicians oppress nonmagician 'commoners' with magic, the occult source of which is unknown to the commoners. But the relative stability of magicians' cushy jobs and lifestyles is about to change-- forever.
