Brian Brushwood Book Test

This is it: The Ultimate Book Test.  Six years in the making, and (until now) performed by only a dozen mentalists worldwide.

Think about this for a moment... what would the perfect book test look like?  It would use multiple, well-known bestsellers to choose from.  The books could be examined before the performance, and then your volunteer could have a truly free selection of any word from any page in any book.

...And yet the performer would be able to figure out almost instantly what their secret selected word is.  And that's just one of the three separate effects built into these books.

Here's the flaw with every other book test out there:  if you want to divine a word selected from a book, you either need a crooked way to force someone's word selection, or you need a crooked book.  Forcing a word selection adds so many steps that your audience quickly becomes suspicious of just how "free" this word selection is.  And there are a bunch of fantastic book tests out there that use crooked books... but none of them have titles that your audience has ever heard of, let alone read.  So your audience is left to guess that the method involves some kind of tricky book (...and, of course, they'll be right).

This book test is completely different.  Your volunteers will truly have a free choice of any word in the book.  Meanwhile, all three books look like real books they've read before... because they are the real books they've read before.  Each book in the Brian Brushwood book test is an authentic copy of a well-known bestseller that has been diabolically altered to make possible the most stunning version of a book test created to date.  The books easily pass inspection before the trick begins:  there's no question that these are the exact same books that they've read and enjoyed in the past.