description: The mysterious death of President Harding in 1923 is only the curtain raiser to this extraordinary novel of magic and science. Charles Carter is Carter the Great, a name given to him by the supreme showman, Harry Houdini. Carter was born into privilege but became a magician out of need. 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 twentieth Century, the stakes are growing higher. Science and the cinema are fast out-stripping even the master magician and instead of that single magic moment, there is only a headlong rush into an uncertain future.
language: English
title: Carter Beats the Devil
titlecomplete: Carter Beats the Devil
characters: Charles Carter, President Warren G. Harding
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magic, Adventure, Mystery, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 13557
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Guardian First Book Award
publisher: Sceptre