The Prestige

About this book

Winner of the World Fantasy Award Christopher Priests The Prestige is the inspiration for the movie directed by Christopher Nolan starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale In 1878 two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent sance. From this moment on their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each others ruin they will deploy all the deception their magicians craft can command--the highest misdirection and the darkest science. Blood will be spilled but it will not be enough. In the end their legacy will pass on for generations...to descendants who must for their sanitys sake untangle the puzzle left to them.