Based on the blockbuster Warner Bros. Pictures film starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger. Allied with both the police department and the district attorney's office, the vigilante known as Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City. But one man dares to mock Batman's mission. A man with a twisted sense of humor. A man whose grotesque smile is reflected on the calling card he leaves at the scene of his crimes: The Joker.

Every hero has a journey... Every journey has an end... Eight years have passed since Batman was last seen in Gotham City. Bruce Wayne's alter ego is hunted by the law, and nothing—it seems—can bring him back. Not even a brazen theft committed by the enigmatic and seductive cat burglar Selina Kyle—inside the walls of Wayne Manor itself. But then a deadly new threat appears, as if out of nowhere. Bane. Huge, powerful, and terrifyingly methodical, Bane is bent on spreading chaos and death. Commissioner Gordon and the GCPD are unable to stop him and have nowhere to turn. But after so many years, can the Dark Knight once again save Gotham from its gravest threat yet? The official novelization of the final chapter in Christopher Nolan's epic, The Dark Knight Trilogy.