Hell Breaks Loose: A prequel from the Sunday Times bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant universe: Book 2

Travel back to 1703 with Skulduggery Pleasant in this standalone story featuring all your favorite characters. So many enemies | so little time . . . 'Derek Landy | a master juggler of scary and funny | has done it again with a twisty mini-masterpiece' The TimesItaly | 1703. As the war with Mevolent rages on | the Dead Men are dispatched to a town in the Tuscan hills – not to assassinate the Lord of the Dark Sorcerers | but to save him. A rift has opened to a hellish dimension | and only Mevolent is strong enough to seal it and save the world.A simple mission | then | which turns ever-so-slightly trickier when Skulduggery is presented with the opportunity to finally get revenge on Nefarian Serpine | the man who murdered him and killed his family thirteen years earlier.Return to the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in a short novel set hundreds of years before Valkyrie Cain is even born | and follow Skulduggery | Ghastly | Shudder | Ravel | Saracen | Dexter and Hopeless as they argue | bicker and battle their way through an army of their most hated enemies in order to save their oldest enemy so they can stop another | brand new | enemy…And that's when things get complicated.Derek Landy's book 'Until the End' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-04-2022.