The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles, #3)

by Rick Riordan

I didn’t want to hear another impossible deadline. By sunset tonight, we had to save the ghost of an evil magician. By sunset tomorrow, Walt would die. And the sunrise after that, if we were really lucky, we could look forward to Doomsday.

Maybe Walt could beat the odds. People survived cancer miraculously. Why not ancient curses?

“Oh, dear. Doomsday tomorrow? Bingo night was supposed to be Friday. My poor darlings will be so disappointed.…”

All I wanted was to infiltrate the most dangerous part of the Duat, steal the shadow of the primordial Lord of Chaos, and save the world. Was that too much to ask?

I guess if you have to travel through the Land of Demons, a limo is the way to go.

The glowing lights extended the boat’s gangplank, and we climbed aboard for what might be the last sunrise in history.