Taken

Alex Verus, a London mage who can glimpse possible futures, has built a quiet reputation as an investigator, and his apprentice Luna is learning the trade beside him. When a woman offers him security work for a prestigious mage tournament, he knows her motives are hard to read. Then he starts looking into a worse problem: apprentices are vanishing without a trace, and someone on the Council may be involved.

With no evidence, no witnesses and no suspects, and the sense that someone is watching him, Alex learns that assassins have targeted Luna's classmate and that he could be the next to disappear.

Taken is the third novel in Benedict Jacka's Alex Verus urban fantasy series, set in a hidden magical London. It blends a mystery with supernatural menace and widens the view of mage society, while giving Luna and the circle of friends around Alex a larger role.