About the book: 2005 / This story took place in London at the beginning of the third millennium. But this is not the London we know. If only because wizards are a very common occurrence there. As well as demons - genies, demons, afrits and many others. Wizards summon demons and, with the help of spells, force them to carry out their orders. The demons, of course, don't like this at all. So, when a young wizard’s apprentice summoned a genie named Bartimaeus, the genie wanted only one thing: to quickly fulfill his master’s whim - to steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand from another wizard - and to forget about the persistent boy. However, everything turned out to be far from so simple…