- War stories, Empathy, Magic, Fiction
Alex is a mage who has the advantage of seeing the possible future, but when multiple factions seek his skills to crack open a relic, he doesn't need special powers to predict that whatever is inside is beyond powerful and that his chances of survival are slim.
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- Author
- Benedict Jacka
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781937007294
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Jacka was born in England and attended the City of London School. He later attended Cambridge University, where he graduated with a Bachelors in philosophy and met his editor Sophie Hicks from Ed Victor Ltd. His first novels were three children's fantasy novels that didn’t get published, followed by To Be A Ninja (later changed to Ninja: The Beginning), a children's non-fantasy novel, which was. In 2000 he began working on a fantasy setting with teenage elementals, for which he wrote four unpublished novels. In 2009, he decided to try again with an adult character and a more information-based ability. Three years later, in 2012, he published the first book of the Alex Verus series, two more
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