{"product_id":"bluff-michael-kardos-9780802129659","title":"Bluff","description":"The magician's job is to create a mystery--an unbridgeable gap between cause and effect. Michael Kardos brilliantly constructs his new novel \u003ci\u003eBluff\u003c\/i\u003e as a magician would, delivering a perfectly calibrated performance of intrigue and, ultimately, astonishment.\u003cp\u003e At twenty-seven, magician Natalie Webb is already a has-been. A card-trick prodigy, she started touring at seventeen, took first place at the World of Magic competition at eighteen, and never reached such heights again. Shunned by the magic world after a disastrous liaison with an older magician, she now lives alone with her pigeons and a pile of overdue bills in a New Jersey apartment. In a desperate ploy to make extra cash, she follows up on an old offer to write a feature magazine article--on the art of cheating at cards. But when she meets the perfect subject for her article, what begins as a journalistic gamble brings into question everything Natalie thinks she knows about her talent, and herself. Natalie is dazzled by the poker cheat's sleight of hand and soon finds herself facing a proposition that could radically alter her fortune--to help pull off a $1.5 million magic trick that, if done successfully, no one will ever even suspect happened. With Kardos raising the stakes chapter after chapter, \u003ci\u003eBluff\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtaking work of suspense from a writer at the top of his game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Kardos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080212965X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802129659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mysterious Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Kardos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990353740031,"sku":"9780802129659","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_57908df7-658f-4e34-800b-ec778f66a51a.jpg?v=1683304214","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bluff-michael-kardos-9780802129659","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}