The mysterious death of President Harding in 1923 is only the curtain raiser to this extraordinary novel of magic and science. Charles Carter is Carter the Great, a name given to him by the supreme showman, Harry Houdini. Carter was born into privilege but became a magician out of need. Only at the moment of the performance, when an audience is brought together by a single experience, can Carter defeat his crippling fear of loneliness. But with every step into the twentieth Century, the stakes are growing higher. Science and the cinema are fast out-stripping even the master magician and instead of that single magic moment, there is only a headlong rush into an uncertain future.
- ISBN10 0786886323
- ISBN13 9780786886326
- Publish Date 18 September 2002 (first published 1 January 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hachette Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 496
- Language English