Unexpected Agenda by Roberto Giobbi - Book
A Full Year of Secrets, Ideas, and Miracles — Day by Day
365 days. 365 secrets. One incredible journey through the mind of Roberto Giobbi, one of magic’s greatest living masters.
Unexpected Agenda is the long-awaited sequel to Secret Agenda and Hidden Agenda, completing Giobbi’s landmark trilogy. This is no ordinary magic book — it’s a personal invitation to spend an entire year inside the mind of a world-class performer and teacher.
Every single day, you’ll unlock a new discovery drawn from Giobbi’s legendary notebooks — a trick, a sleight, a piece of theory, a presentation idea, a story, a business strategy, a psychological subtlety. Each one hand-picked from a lifetime of learning, tested in real performance, and shared with the kind of insight only Giobbi can deliver.
This isn’t just a book you read — it’s a book you live.
What you’ll find inside:
- How to break in a new deck to perfection
- How to harness a surrealist game for a stunning routine
- A twelve-point program to destroy stage fright
- Fred Kaps’ professional advice
- Seven rock-solid strategies for creating original presentations
- Stanley Jaks’ unpublished favorite card trick
- How to turn a paper napkin into a Himber wallet
- Mel Stover’s “Days of Force” with a powerful emotional hook
- The best close-up trick Dai Vernon ever showed laypeople
- Roberto Giobbi’s most treasured magic and non-magic books
- Practical, real-world notes on signing cards, buying decks, and enhancing predictions
- Nine original ways to have a card thought of — far beyond “Pick a card!”
- Half a dozen natural, sleight-free deck switches
- Five new key card ruses that will change your approach
- Ten surprising uses for a wallet beyond card-to-wallet
- Plus dozens more miracles, tips, stories, and lessons from a lifetime in magic
Unexpected Agenda goes far beyond card tricks — it covers coins, close-up, stage, theory, psychology, business, and the fine art of wonder itself. Roberto Giobbi’s notes are exhaustive, practical, and bursting with inspiration that will fuel your magic for a lifetime.
Presented in a beautiful, clothbound hardcover stamped with ornate foil, with a ribbon bookmark to track your progress, this is a book built to be treasured. 384 pages of timeless knowledge from a performer who has devoted more than forty years to mastering the art.
UNEXPECTED AGENDA
Every day, a new key to unlock your magic.