In Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand, Bartimaeus is a 14th level skinning with millennia of experience, who is shocked and angered to find himself summoned by a mere 12 year old magician apprentice name Nathaniel. Nathaniel has hatched a partially conceived plan to get vengeance on a powerful magician named Simon Lovelace and orders Bartimaeus to retrieve the Amulet of Samarkand from his home. Once the Amulet is acquired, Nathaniel sends the djinni to uncover the history of and information regarding the power of this amulet. That's when the plan begins to unravel. The amulet was stolen from a murdered government magician, and Simon is pulling out all the stops to get it back. He tracks it to the home of Nathaniel's master, and Nathaniel only just survives because of the help of the djinni. Despite the djinni's protest, Nathaniel is determined to stop whatever plan Simon has underway, and it will take all of Bartumaeus' magic and cunning to give them a chance to survive.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. 5 stars.
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