The Wrong Magician

<p><strong>This time the magician needs to make himself disappear to outwit the hitmen!</strong></p><p>The story starts in Hobart in 1974 with the opening of Australia's first legal casino.<br>William Clarin is banking on a career in politics to prop up his sagging legal practice.<br>But when he disappoints some gangsters who mistakingly think he's called The Magician because he can make charges go away he has a choice to make. Fight or flight?<br>If he legs it he'll be turning his back on the generous public purse.<br>William finds himself out-gunned out-muscled and out-ranked on the high seas. He really has to pull something special out of his hat this time.<br>This novella sets the stage for the larger mystery of Mad Bill's Island and the dark secret that lies at its heart.</p>