"Here's excellent magic: the hours vanish, the pages turn themselves. And magic in every word." - Karen Joy Fowler Beautifully written, packed with fun, scares, and surprises. it all makes for a wild and heartstopping show. "Gold has conjured one dead president, one blood-sucking dog, a ship full of pirates, and a cabal of Secret Service agents. Red cloth over black boards, gilt stamping on spine, pictorial dust jacket. "A top-hat-and-tails performance.suspenseful, compendious, moving and persuasive." - Michael Chabon The mysterious death of President Harding in 1923 is only the curtain raiser to this extraordinary novel of magic and science. You hold in your hands the thick velvet curtains and the stage is waiting: open up! What a lucky reader you are, with all of Gold's world of wonder waiting right here in your fingertips. "Settle into your chair, get comfortable and prepare for an absolutely marvelous journey into magic and illusion. Glen David Gold is a first-rate storyteller, with his own hoard of magician's tricks." - Kevin Baker "Carter Beats the Devil is an absorbing mystery, full of magic, romance, and history and populated with fascinating characters, both real and imagined, from the great Houdini, to a doomed President Harding, to the villainous Mysterioso.
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