The Amulet of Samarkand

Name: The Amulet of Samarkand
Author: Jonathan Stroud

by Jonathan Stroud

Boy magician forms an unlikely alliance with a powerful trapped djinni spirit

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Jonathan Stroud

Jonathan Stroud is a British fantasy author best known for the Bartimaeus Trilogy, in which a young magician summons a sarcastic djinn to help him navigate a magical alternate London. The Lockwood and Co. series follows teenage ghost hunters with equal wit and invention. His work combines genuine tension with comic brilliance.

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