Wise-cracking djinni Bartimaeus finds himself at the court of King Solomon with an unpleasant master, a sinister servant, and King Solomon's magic ring.
At head of title: Bartimaeus Prequel to: The Bartimaeus trilogy Demon extraordinaire, Bartimaeus, is stuck as a spirit slave doing dead-end jobs in King Solomon's Jerusalem. The shame of it! Solomon's ring of legend, which affords its master absolute power, has a lot to answer for
