The Warlock Effect: A highly entertaining, twisty adventure filled with magic, illusions and Cold War espionage
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The Warlock Effect: A highly entertaining, twisty adventure filled with magic, illusions and Cold War espionage
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But after his talent for deception attracts the attention of the British secret service, Louis is thrown into the perilous world of espionage and finds himself sent across Europe with a dangerous mission to fulfil. I reccomend this for everyone. I reccomend it if you need some comfort (weird but trust me) or you need some adventure. Read this if you’ve lived. That took me to the blurb which sounded so delicious it rendered me powerless to resist. So I didn't! It is well written, and the agent/double agent conundrum adds a twist to what would otherwise have been a simple story about surviving torture.
Digital Reads A Curse For True Love : the thrilling final book in the Once Upon a Broken Heart series I think the seed was first planted about 20 years ago when a book came out by a magician we both really respect and it lit the fuse of this idea of the transferable skills between magic and spying,” said Dyson. Even the twin godfathers of spies – James Bond and George Smiley – have given more than a nod to the marriage of espionage and magic. In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, published in 1974, John le Carré has Smiley investigating the tangled web weaved by “Source Merlin” and the intelligence he produces, collectively known as “Witchcraft”, while an elite group of spies is referred to as the Magic Circle. Spycraft and magic have always been strange but agreeable bedfellows, and a recent trend for merging both branches of the dark arts is gathering momentum in fiction. A British secret service agent recruits him for a mission which requires sleight-of-hand skills. But is he dealing with a double agent? Are his handlers British? Soviets? Louis is taken against his will, removed from his friends and fiancée, and thrust into a Kafkaesque world of mind games. He is sent into Czechoslovakia to investigate the sinister ‘Funhouse’ where it seems magicians can fool magicians.
Sue Vertue, Steven Moffat, and Brian Minchin will Executive Produce for Hartswood Films with Dyson and Nyman writing and acting as showrunners on the series. The period atmosphere and the Cold War detail feel like a Le Carré but it’s the characters you really care about. Exactly like some of the magic it describes, the odd sleight of hand or false deception wrapped around a terrific mystery.’ IAN MOORE Jeremy Dyson is co-creator of the West End hit play and film Ghost Stories, and a founding member of the team behind award-winning BBC series The League of Gentlemen. He has written for and script edited many series, including Killing Eve. He is the writer of a novel and three collections of short stories, one the Edge Hill award winner The Crane that Builds the Cranes. At some point, Louis becomes a willing participant in the secret agenting that he is being forced into. Given what they had put him through, I found that a bit incredible. If it were me, I would have found some way to phone the fiancée. Mr Aldous, editor of Illustrated, who has previous history with Louis, challenges him to prove his magic is ‘real’. His assistant (and fiancée) Dinah is hidden within a three-mile radius, and Louis must find her within three hours, blindfolded, only using his ‘psychic’ mental connection to her. They secretly communicate messages to each other by tapping their fingers in Morse code. He passes the test.
Sheer delight... This enthralling, playful thriller can be enjoyed for its virtuosic recreation of the period' THE SUNDAY TIMESBBC, ITV, Hartswood & Sister Among Seven TV Companies Investigated Over Possible Breaches Of Antitrust Laws When Hiring Freelance Crew
Jeremy Dyson is co-creator of the West End hit play and film Ghost Stories, and a founding member of the team behind award-winning BBC series The League of Gentlemen. He has written and script edited many series, including Killing Eve. He is the writer of a novel and two collections of short stories, one the Edge Hill award winner The Crane that Builds the Cranes. Everything about this book is incredible, the opening contract, the little magical asides, the story, the twists and turns. I’m not going to tell you anything about this book as it needs to be read to appreciate its uniqueness. Man about town, denizen of Soho's nightclubs and cabaret bars - and the most skilled magician of his time . . . But then Louis agrees to spy for the British government (it's the height of the Cold War), and things grow far darker and messier. The tale becomes more psychological, the conflict more internal. Interwoven into Louis's tale are snippets from a primer on magic that he has written -- but there are strange passages that make us wonder what is really going on.Intriguing and completely original, this Cold War spy novel is just what every bookshelf needs’ W.C. RYAN I’d have liked maybe a shorter setup and a longer finish, or indeed a removal of the whole Czechoslovakia plot entirely - half the book seemed to get on just fine without it. I hated and loved this book. To have the power to remind me of the stories I heard growing up about the holocaust and then make me laugh at a brilliant range of believably eccentric friends is beyond talent, it’s magic. All the hallmarks of a modern classic, with more twists and turns than the intestinal tract -- Adam Kay
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