A Spell for the Changing: The Wizard of 4th Street

by Simon Hawke

Undercover WizardBureau of Thaumaturgy Special Adept Agent William Slade has enough to deal with as he works with his therapist to reconcile his merging with the spirits of two immortal mages, Merlin Ambrosius and his father, Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall. But as if that were not enough, the Director of the Bureau has assigned him to investigate Senator Jordan Jimson, whose Spell Control Initiative threatens to place all magic use throughout the country under the control of his Congressional committee. Citizens Against Thaumaturgic Supremacy, better known as CATS, is a radical anti-thaumaturgy organization that has been staging violent demonstrations against magic and also contributes heavily to the senator's campaign. Is Senator Jimson secretly running CATS. or is CATS running the senator? And can Slade and his team complete their investigation before the senator finds out about it and uses his power and influence to shut them down?

220 pages, Paperback

Published February 14, 2025

About the author

Also published as J.D. Masters.

He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also written near future adventure novels under the penname "J. D. Masters" and mystery novels.

Reviews

[Lee Willie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant book and great to see Simon Hawke has written a continuation of the Wizard of 4th Street novels.

[Kay Webb Harrison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another engrossing entry in the Wizard of 4th Street series. Hawke's work is a fantasy, but it is grounded in our current world's reality.