The Golem's Eye

It’s good to be young and talented wizard. Wizards are respected in the British Empire.

Of course—after all, it’s the wizards who rule the country, while everyone else can only thank fate that mighty mages take care of their well-being (though not everyone in the people understands this).

Nathaniel is only fourteen, but his superiors already value him, and even the Prime Minister himself takes him under his patronage. One problem: he doesn’t have friends (wizard friendships are generally not a thing), but there are plenty of envious people. And just then, to make matters worse, in London at night real trouble starts—complete disorder—and the police chief insists it’s the work of those very hooligans whom Nathaniel has been tasked to catch. Well, in that kind of mess you can’t manage without a strong ally. And Nathaniel has nothing left to do but call the genie named Bartiméus, who once already helped him get back the Amulet of Samarkand…

“The Eye of the Golem” continues “The Bartiméus Trilogy,” a magnificent children’s fantasy series by Jonathan Stroud.