TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pullman, Philip
AU  - Lawrence, John;
TI  - Once Upon a Time in the North
T2  - His Dark Materials
SN  - 9780857535665
U1  - 823.92 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Random House Children's Books
KW  - Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction
N2  - In this prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby--Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua--is just 24 years old, and he's recently won his hot-air balloon in a poker game. He finds himself floating North to the windswept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon Hester are quickly tangled in a deadly plot involving an oil magnate, a corrupt mayoral candidate, and Lee's longtime nemesis from the Dakota Country, a hired killer with at least twenty murders to his name
ER  -