The eagerly anticipated new novel from “one of the master illusionists of our time.” (<i>Wired</i>)<br><br> In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed—annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth.<br><br> A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy.<br><br> Present day. A theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.