Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in numerous books, films and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever more dangerous feats, his secret life as a spy and a pernicious plot to subvert his kegacy. It is an intimate and riveting portryal of Houdini, the man and the legend.