The Switchblade Svengali

When the bell tolls midnight, it'll be 1968.

Royce Pembrook is living well in a new city, with new patrons, a new name, and a new trade. But he's the same scam artist he's been for thirty years. Since youth, Royce has made his money and found trouble in fraudulent séances that prey on the grieving widows of high society. Now he's expanded his con, posing as a hypnotist, a Svengali, swindling everyone in Phoenix from scions of old wealth to a UFO cult led by a heroin-addicted visionary.

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