Houdini's Flight

Terry Voulos is struggling. His marriage, his relationship with his son and his work are all shaky. He finds solace in the possibility of a new career as a magician, before a tragic accident sends him into exile, estranged from all that is familiar.



Hal Sargeson, a one-time magician and lifelong disciple of Harry Houdini, takes Terry under his wing. He begins to school Terry in the same arts of escape that the great Houdini had used to thrill Australian audiences a hundred years earlier, but keeps to himself a knot that might have beaten the master himself.



Terry is eventually brought to truths more disturbing than his present troubles, and to a moment when the healing power of magic is truly needed. And what Terry learns from Houdini's example and Hal's guidance is much more than the routine illusions of the everyday magician.



HOUDINI'S FLIGHT is a moving and surprising story of finding meaning in the most unexpected of places. To escape from the ordinary present and the bonds of the past sometimes takes a special kind of magic.