Carter beats the devil
On 2nd August 1923, master magician Charles Carter makes the most daring performance of his life. Its climax features a battle with the devil himself, and this evening the President of the United States, Warren G. Harding, is taking part. Two hours later, President Harding is dead and Carter is the target of the secret services. Charles Carter is "Carter the Great", a name given him by supreme showman Harry Houdini. Carter had to become a magician: 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 20th centry the stakes are growing higher. Science and the cinema are fast out-stripping even the master magician and that single magic moment. Hunted by those who believe him to be a murderer, he nevertheless rises again and again to delight his audience
Audiobook on CD, English, 2003
Headline Hodder Audiobooks, London, 2003