{"product_id":"bluff-a-novel","title":"Bluff: a novel","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\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Bulk","offers":[{"title":"Used \/ 9780802128041-001","offer_id":43828415987773,"sku":"9780802128041-001","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/15921743482473.jpg?v=1792096185","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/bluff-a-novel","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}