Absolute Madness Magic Book by Craig Petty

Craig Petty performs at hundreds of events a year. Corporates, weddings, family events, if it’s an audience that needs some magic Craig is sharing his magic with them. Now, Craig is sharing the real workers from his repertoire. These are his openers, his closers, and the coin work that garnered him an underground reputation as one of the best coin magicians in the UK. This is the mentalism he uses to fry his highest-paying clients. This is the card magic he uses to get rebooked. This is the children’s magic he has used to entertain thousands of kids in Europe. Some of Craig’s best sleight of hand has been captured in his first hardcover book. This is Absolute Madness by Craig Petty.

Featuring 18 effects, 4 essays, dozens of photographs, and 182 pages, this is some of the most hard-hitting magic Craig has ever released. This hardcover book is the culmination of thirty years of performing in front of real audiences and features a special link to a show filmed in the P3 Magic theater of every effect in the book performed in front of a live audience.

What will you learn in this book?
Across: A thought of cards across with no extra cards or gimmicks.

Awesome Sandwich: A selected card appears between two queens multiple times right before the four aces are produced.

Back Off: An ambitious card routine built into a packet trick that also features a stunning All Backs sequence.

Final Twist: A mashup of John Bannon and Dai Vernon where a twisting of the aces causes a deck shuffled face up and face down to right itself.

Designed Dupe: A multi-phase drawing duplication effect perfect food walkaround performances.

Lloyd: Trevor Duffy’s Phil Effect gets an extra prediction and the ability to shuffle the deck.

Cross: A progressive sandwich trick in which marked cards work their way through the deck to find a selected card with no sleight of hand required.

Movie: A movie prediction in a deck of cards featuring a secret so diabolical it will make it into the repertoire of mentalists around the world.

Sharp: A crazy visual Sharpie marker and coin routine with a marker growing to impossible size and a jumbo coin finish your audience will never see coming.

Through The Looking Glass: Paul Harris’ classic effect Twilight, where coins appear from a mirror, can now be done walk-around and table side.

Virtual Coin Assembly: Coins drawn on cards jump from card to card before becoming real coins.

Into The Void: David Roth’s Portable Hole effect becomes performable table-side by a standing performer for the first time ever.

Triple Double Jumbo Threat: A visual feast of three coins vanishing, appearing, teleporting, and becoming multiple jumbo coins. No audience is ever the same after seeing this.

Triple Split: An impossibly clean production and vanish of three coins from bare hands.

Craig’s Medallion: The cleanest handling of Koran’s medallion. A prediction on the back of a coin held under guard by a spectator that you’ll love performing.

Thud: A coin becomes a ball bearing, almost like you are playing with liquid mercury. The steel ball grows to impossible sizes and is how Craig gets huge reactions from his walk-around audiences.

Gadabout Bearings: Small ball bearings teleport and transport in size right before the spectator’s eyes.

The Big Family Show Sponge Ball Routine: If you need to hold the attention of a room of kids and adults alike, this is the sponge ball routine you are going to want to learn.

Balled Up: An impromptu sponge ball routine with rolled-up napkins becomes impossible when one napkin vanishes and is found inside the other napkin the spectator has been holding since the beginning of the trick.

The essays cover marketing, creativity, and how Craig has shared his magic with his son and made their mutual love of the art into a strong father-son bond. These are thoughtful essays in which Craig shares how he went from gigging to running one of the largest entertainment companies in the United Kingdom. This is the real Craig Petty. The one behind the scenes that you don’t get to see on YouTube.

The book kicks off with a foreword by one of modern magic’s most celebrated creators, Angelo Carbone. The tricks and routines are audience-tested. The essays are a real insight into what has made Craig such a successful force of nature in the world of magic. This is one of Craig’s biggest projects yet, and he’s finally ready to share it with you.