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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. The Warlock Effect centres around Ludvik Weinschenk, a boy who fled to England from Nazi Germany with only a pack of cards and three tricks to his name. Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Sherlock producer Hartswood Films has won the rights to adapt Cold War magic thriller The Warlock Effect into a TV series. This book definitely has magic in it because I was spellbound and couldn’t tear myself away from the pages.
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Mr Aldous, editor of Illustrated, who has a previous history with Louis, challenges him to prove his magic is real. In fact, it almost reads as if it's the 2nd or 3rd in a series rather than the 1st (or a standalone). 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. The Ghost Stories boys' new novel follows Louis Warlock, a successful stage magician in 1950s London, as he gets himself caught in the tangles of Cold War espionage, and for me the central problem was that I was much more engaged by the conjuring material, like the fabulous heist-style act of mentalism* which gets the book underway, than the spy stuff. 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.
In summary: Good character piece centred on a Jewish immigrant and all the attendant trauma that entails, but not very good as a Cold War-magician-spy piece. Dyson is known for his work on BBC comedy The League of Gentlemen, on which he collaborated with Sherlock star Mark Gatiss. Given the period, of course the enemy is Russia, but here with a clever spin rather than the more usual nuclear or other military threat. It is, of course, the Lovers, and one arched-eyebrow later she has fallen for the secret agent’s charms.When he comes face to face with a nemesis whose cunning rivals his own, Louis will need to use every trick in the book or risk the most terrible consequences, both for the country and for himself.
A young German Jew fleeing the Nazis, Ludvik plays card tricks to lure the English boys away from tormenting him. I warmed to these men and women instantly; their relationships are believable and they ping ideas off one another. I didn't want it to end' PETER JAMES'A beautiful magic trick in itself - wonderful' DERREN BROWN'I absolutely loved every twist, every turn, every blockbusting cliffhanger' STEVEN MOFFATMeet Louis Warlock. Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson then whisk us off to the main narrative in a vividly drawn 1950s London where we are introduced to one Louis Warlock, showman extraordinaire, and his close circle, the Brains Trust.The renown this gives to the act makes Warlock of interest to higher-ups, however, who have a vital sleight-of-hand task for him – he will be in their employ for reasons of secret, Cold War purposes, but all for the public good. Cue the first third, an enjoyable British vintage take on "Now You See Me", as the whole machinations of getting the trick completed are revealed, in something like real time now and again.
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