![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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