The year is 1861. Ric Lazare, a brilliant young magician, has mesmerized the fashionable salons of Paris with his aura of opulence, his exquisitely beautiful wife and a fortune-telling machine of unearthly accuracy. But what is the source of his strange gift? Is he a crook, a master of illusion, a real magician or a reincarnation from an older world? Inspector Picard, whose duty it is to protect the dazzling leaders of society in their flirtations with the demi-monde, believes Lazare to be a fraud and murderer and determines to expose him.
But as Picard travels across Europę in order to investigate the strange secrets of the magician's past, he finds himself drawn into sinister worlds of illusion ranging from the bizarre creations of a Nuremberg toymaker to the legendary Fata Morgana...
"Kotzwinkle is the magician... creating Police Inspector Picard and working a wondrous spell over the reader... Like Borges, Kotzwinkle manipulates the surface reality of his account to reveal uncanny, terrifying glimpses of a world unseen... The revelation of his arch-villain's true identity continues to absorb and surprise the reader chapter after chapter." --Los Angeles Times
- Autor: William Kotzwinkle
- Kategoria: kryminał, sensacja, thriller
- Język: polski
- ISBN: 000-00-0000-00-0
- Data wydania: 1979-01-01
- Liczba stron: 173
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: Corgi Books
