Bullet Catch: Smoke & Dagger Book 1 is based on an historical precedent – that magicians have been recruited by spy agencies (including the Secret Service) for centuries.

Magicians and spies have one very important thing in common: they both practice the art of deception. Making your “audience” look one way while you do something else has been practiced in venues ranging from an uncle pulling a coin out of a child’s ear all the way up to the invasion of Normandy in World War II.

It was inevitable that magicians and spies would eventually work together and share techniques. In the 1950s the CIA hired John Mulholland, one of the top magicians of his day, to work with them on a program to teach agents sleight of hand and misdirection to deliver various drugs to their targets as part of a mind-control program called MK-ULTRA.

Bullet Catch: Smoke & Dagger Book 1 is both a thriller and a family drama about what happens when Steve Nelson, a magician, finds out that his parents were more than just magicians themselves. They were also spies, and someone from their past is trying to kill them.