- Fiction, fantasy, general, Missing persons, fiction
When Anne Walker, who has cut all ties with the mage community after getting kicked out of the apprentice program, is kidnapped, Alex Versus, with his talent for divining the future, must journey deep into the shadow realm of Sagash to rescue this woman who no longer trusts him.
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- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Benedict Jacka
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Blanvalet, Ace Books, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783734162534
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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 In 2000 he began working on a fantasy setting with teenage elementals, for which he wrote four unpublished novels.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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