Cover of the first edition
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Author | Michael Scott |
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Cover artist | Michael Wagner |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel |
Genre | Fantasy, Thriller, Fiction, Mythology |
Publisher | Random House |
Publication date
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26 May 2009 (U.S. & Canada) 1 June 2009 (Australia) 25 June 2009 (UK & Ireland) |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 483 p. (U.S. Hardback) |
ISBN | (U.S.A), ISBN (UK) |
Preceded by | The Magician |
Followed by | The Necromancer |
Website | [1] |
The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (often shortened to The Sorceress) is the third installment in the six-book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel written by Michael Scott. It serves as the sequel to The Magician, and was released on 26 May 2009 in the US, 1 June 2009 in Australia, and 25 June 2009 in the UK. The titular sorceress refers to Perenelle Flamel.
Flamel takes the twins to London, where he uses Francis to enlist Palamedes, the Saracen Knight, to help them. Palamedes takes them to his home, a junk-yard in London, and they manage to work together to contact Perenelle. Perenelle is trapped on Alcatraz with the friendly but untrustworthy spider elder, Areop-Enap, after narrowly escaping the Sphinx and defeating the Morrigan. Morrigan had been suppressed sufficiently by the Words of Power that resided on the island that her body was retaken by her two elder sisters, Macha and Badb. Perenelle also makes fleeting contact with Scathach and Joan of Arc by scrying. Areop-Enap and its spider army are then attacked by an onslaught of poisoned flies, killing most of the spiders and wounding Areop-Enap. Billy the Kid has joined forces with Machiavelli in an attempt to kill the sorceress, but Perenelle, aided by Macha and Badb, tricks the pair and steals their boat, travelling back to the mainland with her new ally, the Crow Goddess.