Carter Beats The Devil

Häftad bok. Sceptre. 2001. 566 sidor.

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Here is a book - a first novel, no less - to blow you away. It seeks to stun and amaze and deceive and, always, to entertain ... wholly original ... Gold's real aim is to recapture the lost era of the great illusionists and escapologists ... and his plot - garish, crude, infernally clever - is precisely honed to the task: it is a triumph of misdirection, a nest of boxes constantly springing fresh surprises. Stage illusions were a popular art; they worked at pace, with drive and rolling drums. Gold's prose has precisely that energy. He creates his own rich, strange world where anything is possible, where characters from fact and fiction mingle ... It's a novel that works on every level: as an evocation, an instruction, a revelation; as fun ... Gold is at his best in page after page of description of acts and actions, where the reader has his or her own seat in the stalls. He also has a gift for anecdote and dialogue ... This is the most exuberant stew of a novel: strange, tasty, addictive ... Glen David Gold has poured thought and toil and inspiration into telling his story, and he leaves himself with only one resounding problem at the close. After such a debut novel, what does he do for his next trick? (Peter Preston, Guardian)

History coloured by a wonderfully fertile imagination, it is a wry-humoured whodunit with a dazzling sense of suspense, it is a romantic tribute to a different age and, at its heart, it is a moving testament to the power of love over loneliness. .. Awesome. . .his timing and touch are immaculate as he creates one of the most diverting reads of the year. . . .Simply brilliant...By turns fearful, intriguing, emotional and confounding, but whatever it is, Carter Beats the Devil is never less than wonderfully entertaining. (Irish Times)

It's refreshing to see an author so obviously into his characters and debut novelist Glen David Gold radiates enthusiasm in his tale of magician Charles Carter, implicated in the death of 29th US president Warren Harding. What's most unbelievable about this stagey set-up is that it's based on actual events. The droll, good-natured narrative never stumbles over 600 pages and Gold's characters, the endearingly troubled Carter at the top of the bill, sit so naturally in the proceedings they positively seem to enjoy being part of his show. Encore please! (The Face)

Mesmerising ... the plot turns a dazzling array of somersaults ... Savour its every page (Graham Caveney, Independent)