Gold has written for movies and TV, so it's no surprise that he delivers snappy, fast-paced dialogue and action scenes as expertly scripted as anything that's come out of Hollywood in years. Farnsworth and self-made millionaire Francis "Borax" Smith, and you have old-fashioned entertainment executed with a decidedly modern sensibility. Throw in countless stunning (and historically accurate) illusions, some beautifully rendered period detail, and historical figures like young inventor Philo T.
In the course of subsequent pages, Carter finds himself pursued by the most hapless of FBI agents falls in love with a beautiful, outspoken blind woman and confronts an old nemesis bent on destroying him. Or does he? It's only the first of many misdirections in a magical performance by Gold. Shortly afterwards, Harding dies mysteriously in his San Francisco hotel room, and Carter is forced to flee the country. Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician Charles Carter executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. In Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold subjects the past to the same wondrous transformations as the rabbit in a skilled illusionist's hat. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Filled with historical references that evoke the excesses and enthusiasm of postwar, pre-Depression America, Carter Beats the Devil is the complex and illuminating story of one man's journey through a magical - and sometimes dangerous - world, where illusion is everything, and everything is illusory. But the most outrageous stunt of all stars none other than President Warren Harding and ends up nearly costing Carter the reputation he worked so hard to create.
His thrilling act involves outrageous stunts carried out on elaborate sets before the most demanding audiences. Fueled by a passion for magic that grew out of desperation and loneliness, Carter has become a legend in his own time. Carter the Great - a young master performer whose skill as an illusionist exceeds even that of the great Houdini. Not just the kind performed in theaters and on stages across the country, but the magic of technology, science, and prosperity. Doctorow and Caleb Carr.Īmerica in the 1920s was a nation obsessed with magic. An amazing, richly evocative novel of magic and history in the tradition of E.
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