Anyway, I’ve read these two books written by Michael Scott: The Alchemyst & The Magician. Both are the first two books of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel saga.
The series unravels the mystery that lies beneath this plausible world we’ve known, beyond every rational thought, and out of reach to scientific minds.
Book one, The Alchemyst, starts when two so-called normal American teenagers -twin brother and sister- Josh and Sophie Newman, both are fifteen and living in San Francisco, discover that Nick Flemming, the owner of a bookshop where Josh works, is the legendary immortal alchemist: Nicholas Flamel. And that his wife, Perry Flemming, is the immortal magician: Perenelle Flamel.
The Flamel couple is the guardians of the Book of Abraham the Mage, or often being referred to as the Codex, which contains the secret recipe of chemical compounds to make the formulation for immortality.
I have to highlight that this secret of life eternal is the least of the secrets in the Codex.
So, you can imagine what bigger secrets that could be acquired from the book.
The Codex has been the root cause of deadly battles over the centuries between the Flamel couple and another immortal magician named Dr. John Dee, who serves as pander to the Dark Elders, an ancient race that once ruled the world, long before men exist. Read more!