John Bannon – High Caliber

“Slick. Cool. Superb on all levels. Beyond the exceptional caliber of the effects is John’s brilliant thinking behind it all.” -John Guastaferro

“It’s a must have, so you will have a great foundation in card magic.” -Dan Harlan

“This great mix of material and methods shows how Bannon continues to think outside the card box. Once again Bannon triumphs!” -Raj Madhok

John Bannon’s highly-engineered, yet easy-to-do brand of magic shines in this retrospective.

Over forty complete routines are described in Bannon’s easy-going readable style. Here are the tricks and the clever, innovative thinking behind them. Collected from Bannon’s publications over the ten years since his internationally best-selling Dear Mister Fantasy, you’ll find an impressive variety as well:

Sophisticated “fractal” packet tricks

Contemporary gambling demonstrations

Ultramodern Ace assemblies

Unorthodox “garden path” tricks

Unconventional transpositions

Refined mental mysteries

High Caliber covers the magical waterfront with a fresh, original view.

Yet, notwithstanding this extraordinary breadth, no gaffs are employed and no difficult moves are required. Virtually all of the routines use regular cards, most are impromptu, and quite a few are self-working. Typical of Bannon’s work, each layered construction has been polished until the trick has a point, a purpose, and a place in the magical firmament.

Contents

Fractal Card Magic (2008)
The Royal Scam
Duplicity

Six. impossible. Things. (2009)
Counterpunch
Four Faces North
Watching the Detectives
New Jax
Full Circle
Origami Poker Revisited
Riverboat Poker
The Einstein Overkill

Open and Notorious (2009)
Opening the Open Prediction
Fifty One Fat Chances
Que Sera Sera
View to a ‘Skill

Mega ‘Wave (2010)
Mega ‘Wave
Fractal Re-Call
Short Attention Scam
Mag-7
Fractal Jacks
Wicked! (Transposition)

Bullet Party (2011)
Bullet Party
Bullet Catcher
Drop Target Aces
Four Shadow Aces
Flipside Assembly
Big Fat Bluff Aces
Box Jumper
Fat City Revisited
Poker Pairadox Redux
Question Zero
Elias Multiple Shift
Crocodile False Cut
Flytrap False Cut

Triabolical (with liam Montier, 2011)
B’rainiac
Short Attention Spin
Montinator 5.0

One Off
Aces Over Easy (2010)
One of the Better Losers (2012)

All in (MAGIC Magazine,February 2012)
Chronic
Buf ’d
Origami Poker Revisited
Ion Man
Bannon at the Sidebar (Raj Madhok)

Z Shufflin’ (2012)
Spin Doctor
Power of Poker
Bannon Triumph
Fractal Recall (Remix)
Origami Prediction

High Caliber is a remarkable collection of card magic by a modern master.