Cambodia’s mystic class of sorcerers, mediums, fortunetellers, and monks channel spirits, read fortunes in numbers and cards, and inscribe enchantments in flesh. But technology and modernity are changing these roles and rituals. Vanishing Act tracks down these mystics to get their stories before they fade away.
This is a story about a snow-covered island you won’t find on any map.
"The best stories change you.
. . . Praise for Vanishing Act “Thomas Perry keeps pulling fresh ideas and original characters out of thin air.
Young Anya's hair must be brushed exactly one hundred times (if it's stroked even one hundred and one, she is convinced that she may die).
Juliet Button doesn’t even believe in ghosts, but she believes in supporting her makeshift family of misfits.
Rock star Jesse Slade disappeared under mysterious circumstances several years ago.
Series praise “Spunky women who fight for truth, justice, and the American way.”—Fresh Fiction on Final Justice “Readers will enjoy seeing what happens when well-funded, very angry women take the law into their own hands ...
“Maybe we should ask Kelleher or Bud about him,” he said. “Too late now,” she said. ... I trust Kelleher and Mearns, but I think you guys might be a little ahead ... But instead of a giant “M,” it had a large “F” in blue lettering.
But Robin is developing a theory of her own. If Melissa met with foul play, why did she take her clothes, her purse, and her cash? If it was such a well-planned vanishing act why is Tommy so reluctant to talk?
In this collection of critical writings, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theatre in America over the last 40 years of the 20th century.