"A brilliant conjuring act by one of the master illusionists of our time." -- Wired on The Prestige "One of our most gifted writers." --John Fowles on The Prestige "Extraordinary--like a dazzling magic act!" -- Entertainment Weekly on The Prestige "A dizzying show of a novel.Imagine Possession rewritten by Barbara Vine, or Robertson Davies at his most smoothly diabolical. A brilliantly constructed entertainment!" -- The Washington Post on The Prestige "As ingenious as it is suspenseful." -- Newsday on The Prestige "Nothing quite prepares you for the sinister complexity and imaginative flair of The Prestige . Magnificently eerie." --Anthony Quinn , The Sunday Times "Beautifully written .

Two magicians vie with each other to create the perfect illusion: vanishing from one part of the stage and reappearing instantaneously in another. It's a story of utter fakery and scientific audacity. The pioneer of electrical power, Nikola Tesla, appears in a supporting role; to say more would reveal too much. Priest masters the merging of SF and mainstream, and The Prestige is his finest novel to date." -- New Scientist on The Prestige "A taut, twisting, prize-winning story of two magicians and their fierce fin-de-siècle rivalry that taints successive generations of their respective families.An unexpectedly compelling fusion of weird science and legerdemain." -- Kirkus on The Prestige "Remarkably akin to the style of the late Robertson Davies.Priest has brought it off with great imagination and skill.

" -- Publishers Weekly on The Prestige "Hypnotic. The Prestige provides the satisfaction of an ambitious and well-told entertainment." -- San Francisco Chronicle " The Prestige is in every way a marvelously scary entertainment with one of the creepiest final revelations in recednt years. Don't miss the magic show!" --Gahan Wilson , Realms of Fantasy "Just as a magic act should be: filled with haunting marvels." -- Time Out London on The Prestige.