Title: Author's Deception
Product review: The War Magician by David Fisher claims to be a true account of the exploits of the illusionist Jasper Maskelyne during the Second World War. In fact the book is an invention, not remotely based on fact, and instead is an attempt to gull the credulous and make money in the process without the slightest concern for the truth of history. I have examined the records at the National Archives at Kew in London, where nothing supports Fisher's story; nor do the records at the Imperial War Museum. For that matter, the word in magic circles here in Britain is that David Fisher's book is so bad, his film treatment so feeble, that Peter Weir, who was asked to direct the film of the book for Paramount, has refused to do so, and the project has been dropped. That is how bad David Fisher's The War Magician is. It is junk for the gullible and feeble minded; it is a travesty of history. It is a lie.
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