![]() ![]() "The County" referenced in the Chronicles is based on Lancashire in the North of England. As the Chronicles progress the focus expands to other characters such as the assassin Grimalkin and the young witch Alice Deane overall the series develops the plotline of Tom being destined to save the world or be tortured by the Fiend, the father of all evil, for all eternity. Tom soon discovers that most of John Gregory's apprentices have failed for various reasons, including being killed in the process of learning how to be a Spook. John Gregory is the Spook for "the County" and gives Tom practical instruction on tackling ghosts, ghasts, witches, boggarts, and all manner of other things that serve "The Dark". Spook's follow Thomas "Tom" Ward, the seventh son of a seventh son who is apprenticed to Gregory to become a Spook - a master fighter of supernatural evil. The series consists of three arcs, titled The Wardstone Chronicles, The Starblade Chronicles, and Brother Wulf. Spook's, published as The Last Apprentice series in the U.S., is a dark fantasy series of books written by British author Joseph Delaney and published in the UK by The Bodley Head division of Random House Publishing. Greenwillow Books division of HarperCollins ![]() UK - The Bodley Head division of Random House & Red Fox. ![]()
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