The Glorious Deception witch & wizard and turns the ordinary into

and turns the ordinary into the extraordinary

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lightning-fast stories by James Patterson

definitive account -- with guns

and changed our literary culture

The Glorious Deception witch & wizard and turns the ordinary intoIn a biography woven from equal parts enchantment and mystery, Jim Steinmeyer unveils the secrets behind the most enigmatic performer in the history of stage magic, Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese Conjurer" a magician whose daring made his contemporary Houdini seem like the boy next door. Soo's infamous and suspicious onstage death in 1918 mystified his fellow magicians: he was shot during a performance of "Defying the Bullets," in which he