"The city was a huge, mad jumble of shapes and sizes. It looked noisy and bustling, a place that never went to sleep."

Out in the city, Varjak makes some new friends. He has fights and hunts and adventures.

In his dreams, he learns a long-lost martial art called the Way of Jalal.

But things are not as they should be in the city. Cats are mysteriously Vanishing off the streets... while brutal street gangs terrorise the weak and powerless.