- Hardcover: 260 pages
- Publisher: Vhps Trade (Oct 15 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 031203394X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312033941
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #526,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Inventing a nephew of the great Houdini, escape artist Vincent Hardare, Swain crams his first novel with hyped-up exploits and characters. Grieving over his wife's recent death, Hardare is performing in London when he learns that his teenaged daughter Crystal is imprisoned in Mexico where she was on holiday from her Connecticut boarding school. Falsely accused of drug-dealing by crooked officials, Crystal and her cell-mate, CIA agent Maria Alvarez, rely on diplomatic measures for their release, but the U.S. government is strangely reluctant to intervene. In desperation, Hardare hires mercenary Frank Kincaid and a female partner, Jan Hargrove, to assist in the hardest trick of his career: breaking into the impenetrable dungeon and rescuing Crystal and Maria. The theatrics are exhaustively detailed but mesmerizing throughout, colored also by explanation of Hardare's marvelous feats, all inspired by Houdini. A magician himself, Swain adds authenticity by revealing some of the secrets of the profession.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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just OK, Dec 19 2011
By Patrick Fitzsimons "fitz" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Man Who Walked Through Walls (Hardcover)
This was his first effort, so i'll cut Swain some slack. The story gets bogged down in details of how illusion works. If you interested in illusions
you might enjoy the book more. I found the plot stalled at times. This is the only Swain book (and I have read all of them) that I had to work
at to finish.
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