THE SECRET GUIDE TO WORD MAGIC nOwen Benjamin grew up hiding under a cardboard desk to survive a nuclear blast, eating margarine because the food pyramid said so, and learning about heroin from a cop who made him act out an overdose in school. He was taught he descended from a primate through random mutation, that he was spinning on a ball of liquid nickel inside an explosion that came from nothing, and that the stars he saw at night were already dead.n nHow to Slay a Wizard is about the people who run the tricks, the tricks themselves, and the one lie at the root of every spell ever cast on a living man or woman. It is not a political book.

It is not a religious book. It is a book about manipulation, who does it, how it works, and why it requires your participation to be effective.n nOnce you see the secret spells, you will never stop seeing them. n nAnd then the wizards can no longer deceive you.n