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Sometimes the most entertaining novels, like the best magic tricks, are deceptively simple. There's no fancy writing in Glen David Gold's first novel, ''Carter Beats the Devil.'' Gold isn't out to wow us with excruciatingly turned phrases, painstakingly stripped-down and juiceless language, excessive self-consciousness disguised as insight or with any other brand of writing-workshop hokum. His book, which is a work of fiction built around a framework of real-life characters and events, is simply a grand story told well, in plain language that glows with bare-bones elegance. It's a class act.

in The New York Times