The Five Gatekeepers, Lohan and Richard manage to get through the door before it is destroyed. When Scarlett is shot in the head, she loses control over the typhoon, which explodes with all its might. Pedro and Scott arrive in Hong Kong through a magical door. The Chairman is killed by a stray wooden sampan caught in the typhoon. The Chairman of the Old Ones reveals the Old Ones' plan to turn Hong Kong into a necropolis, or city of the dead. Jamie, Richard, and Lohan rescue them and take them to the Tai Shan Temple, where they manage to get through the typhoon with Scarlett's help. Matt allows himself to be captured by the Old Ones and is taken to Scarlett. Matt, Jamie and Richard meet with Lohan's father Han Shan-tung, who agrees to help them infiltrate Hong Kong. Scarlett discovers her power is weather control when the shock of her father’s betrayal causes her to create a powerful typhoon, which approaches Hong Kong. Lohan attempts to help Scarlett escape Hong Kong, but her father betrays her to Nightrise. Scarlett is rescued by a member of the Chinese Triads, Lohan Shan Tung. Cheng, who turns out to be a shape shifter from the Old Ones.

Scarlett arrives in Hong Kong and is looked after by a Mrs.

Matt, along with Jamie and Richard, travel to Macau in search of Scarlett, on the advice of the Nexus. The Nexus informs them that Scarlett's father works for the Nightrise Corporation and has taken her to Hong Kong, a city that is suspected of housing the Old Ones. Matt, Jamie Tyler and Richard Cole travel to London, but narrowly miss meeting Scarlett.

The media storm resulting from Scarlett's disappearance alerts Matthew Freeman in Peru that Scarlett is the new Gatekeeper. Scarlett escapes and returns to St Meredith's. On a school field trip to St Meredith's Church, Scarlett Adams finds herself magically transported to a monastery in Ukraine, where she is captured by monks who worship the Old Ones. The book was released in the United Kingdom and Australia on 30 October 2008, and it had sold 190,000 copies worldwide before Christmas 2008. It is the fourth novel in his The Power of Five series. Necropolis is a fantasy novel by British writer Anthony Horowitz.

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