_____________________________________''The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea . . . dark and dangerous and full of twists'' ¿ GEORGE R. R. MARTINTHE BESTSELLING BOOK BEHIND THE HIT SYFY SHOW_____________________________________In a secret world of forbidden knowledge, power comes at a terrible price...Quentin Coldwater''s life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton University, he finds his interviewer dead ¿ but a strange envelope bearing Quentin''s name leads him down a very different path. Instead of Princeton, he finds himself invited to study at Brakebills ¿ a secret college of modern-day sorcerers.Quentin plunges deep into a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power; and for a while, it seems to answer all Quentin''s desires. But the idyll cannot last. Ther