菲利普·普尔曼的世界在《微妙的刀》漫画小说中被赋予了视觉生活，它是成功的《黄金罗盘》漫画小说的伙伴。这本令人惊叹的全彩作品将为新读者和老读者提供一个机会，让他们以全新的方式体验莱拉的故事。莱拉是一个普通的女孩，在多个世界的命运中扮演着非凡的角色。
Philip Pullman's world is brought to visual life in The Subtle Knife Graphic Novel, a companion to the successful The Golden Compass Graphic Novel. The stunning full-color art will offer both new and returning readers a chance to experience the story of Lyra, an ordinary girl with an extraordinary role to play in the fates of multiple worlds, in an entirely new way.
在《微妙的刀》中，莱拉遇到了威尔一个逃亡的男孩，一个杀人犯，一个值得欢迎的盟友。因为在这个世界上，吞噬灵魂的幽灵出没街头，女巫与天使部队共享天空。
In The Subtle Knife, Lyra meets Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels.
每个人都在寻找，莱拉在寻找暗物质的意义，威尔在寻找他失踪的父亲，但他们找到的却是一个致命的秘密，一把拥有无限力量的刀。而且无论是莱拉还是威尔都不知道他们的生活，他们的爱，他们的命运是如此紧密地联系在一起……直到它们被分开。
Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father--but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together...until they are split apart.
