Burned : An Alex Verus Novel

Burned : An Alex Verus Novel
ISBN: 9780356504407
Publication Date: 12 April 2016

The seventh novel in this compelling urban fantasy series featuring Alex Verus, the Camden-based mage who just can't stay out of trouble despite his ability to see the future.

Alex Verus has a magic shop in Camden, London, and an uncanny ability to see the future.

But suddenly everyone can see Alex's future. Because the Mage's Council of Great Britain just named him a traitor and ordered his death in seven days' time, and there's no way anyone can get out of that.

Alex's friends - Luna and the other apprentices he's taken in - are tainted by association. They'll be marked for death too when the ruling comes into play, and Alex becomes locked in a race against time to save them.

But with only seven days to work with, will he have time left over save his own skin?

About the Author

Benedict Jacka became a writer almost by accident, when at nineteen he sat in his school library and began writing in the back of an exercise book. Since then he has worked for the civil service, studied philosophy at Cambridge and been a bouncer, but has always found the time to keep writing.