Suzi Feay

Magic and espionage: The Warlock Effect, by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, reviewed

A young stage illusionist is recruited by the British secret service to extract a list of double agents concealed in a Russian magician’s stage prop

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issue 08 April 2023
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  • The Warlock Effect

    Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman

    Hodder, pp. 368, £20

When a shocking, plot-terminating event occurs almost halfway through The Warlock Effect, it’s not just the prospect of another 200 pages to go that alerts the reader to narrative trickery. The central character, Louis Warlock, is after all a stage illusionist who has already pulled off a seemingly impossible feat of mind-reading in front of a crowd of sceptics.

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