trick of the light
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An Instant Classic*

 *One of the TOP TEN Most Inspirational
Books of All time!

(*Only ten books were recommended under the "Creative Expression" category in John Clancy's A New Age Guide for the Thoroughly Confused and the Absolutely Certain. Along with Trick of the Light in the top ten, were such classics as The Little Prince, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and Hermann Hesse's Magister Ludi, The Glass Bead Game.)

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT
TRICK OF THE LIGHT

ROBERT ANTON WILSON, author of The Illuminati Trilogy  -- I heartily recommend the works of Stephen Smoke. His novels have chilling undertones, comic cadences and cosmic discoveries wrapped in entertaining adventure yarns of the astounding sci-fi New Age that is dawning upon us.

RALPH BLUM, author of The Book of Runes -- Somewhere between Mickey Spillane and Tielhard de Chardin, Trick of the Light provides a kind of nourishment best described as "private eye soul food."

KEN CAREY, author of Return of the Bird Tribes -- And yes, at the end of the search the place of beginning is found at last -- and seen for the first time. Not since Colin Wilson's The Mind Parasites have I so thoroughly enjoyed a metaphysical novel.

BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT MAGAZINE -- It had to happen sometime and Stephen Smoke has done it. An interesting combination of Mickey Spillane delivery with a New Age plot.

OMEGA NEW AGE DIRECTORY -- If you read this as if it were a regular detective story, you'll find yourself automatically skipping over some of the very best "occult" teaching…good stuff the likes of which you'll never find in a Dashiell Hammett thriller… All the elements necessary for spine-chilling adventure…sandwiched in between enlightening truisms. Listen to the music Stephen Smoke plays loud and clear. You'll recognize the familiar tune, and maybe, notice the trick of the light.

ARIZONA NETWORKING NEWS -- would you believe a post-yuppie spiritual adventure that blends a hard-boiled detective story with new Age Eastern metaphysics? That would be quite an assignment, right? Well, Stephen Smoke, who is the author of Voices in the Night and Deliver Us From Evil, manages to pull it off.

SMALL PRESS BOOK REVIEW -- This novel is filled with liveliness and imagination. The cast of characters is indefatigably entertaining…highly amusing.

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