Edge Chronicles 5: The Last of the Sky Pirates (The Edge Chronicles)

A dramatic and exuberant fantasy adventure filled with colourful and imaginative characters and illustrated with exquisite detail.<br> <br> Fifty years after the floating city of Sanctaphrax was swept away, the Edgeworld has changed for the worse. Cruel shrykes control the great Mire Road, while slave labour is endemic. <br> <br> When a young apprentice knight-academic, Rook, sets out on a perilous journey through the Deepwoods, he meets a mysterious stranger living with the banderbears and is propelled right into the middle of a dangerous adventure in which a small group of fighters must challenge the dark might of the Guardians of the Night.