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A magician short on bookings; a rich banker with a secret; a woman missing for 20 years, come together as chaos erupts in Chicago's politics.
In ILLUSIONS OF MAGIC a rich and devious banker engages magician Nick Zetner to retrieve compromising photos. Along the way, Nick regains a love he thought he'd forever lost. As Chicago reels from the fatal wounding of its mayor by a bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt, love and duty clash, the quest risks Nick's magic . . . then turns deadly.
Available on Amazon.com. | |  | | Illusions of Magic: The Movie
Chicago, 1933. Magician Nick Zetner’s magic act is the victim of vaudeville’s demise and the Great Depression. He embarks on a risky quest to regain his life. Along the way, a love he thought he’d forever lost is rekindled. Is this magic . . . or simply an illusion?
Chicago, 1933. Magician Nick Zetner’s magic act is the victim of vaudeville’s demise and the Great Depression. He embarks on a risky quest to regain his life. Along the way, a love he thought he’d forever lost is rekindled. Is this magic . . . or simply an illusion?
The question plays out during the political upheaval following the wounding of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who took a bullet during the real-life assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 15, 1933. Nineteen days later, Cermak died.
In modern style, the reader-friendly screenplay ranges through his | |  | | Low on Gas - High on Sky: Nick Mamer's 1929 Venture
Before jet planes, even before widespread air travel, a biplane called the Sun God flew 6,200 miles—without landing. This book relates the exciting story of the 1929 flight that put Nick Mamer into the record books, proving nonstop flight to anywhere on earth realistic using air-to-air refueling. Finalist, 2 national book awards.
In the velvet black of night over Rock Springs, Wyoming, Nick Mamer aims his airplane at the glowing exhaust above him. Nudging stick and feathering throttle, he pulls ever closer to the plane overhead.
Out of the inky sky, a hose dangles. Inches below its flailing nozzle, the 31-year old Mamer tames the turbulence while artfully sustaining a precise spacing so his partner behind him can capture the hose. Art Walker signals ‘okay’ to the supply plane, and gasoline gushes into the tank of Mamer’s aircraft.
Without warning, Mamer’s propeller slices through the hose. Walker is drenched. |
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