The California Roll: A Novel

About this book

Meet Radar Hoverlander a witty gifted con artist with the mind of David Mamet the voice of Tom Robbins and the morals of a sailor on shore leave. What do the Merlin Game the Penny Skim the Doolally Snadoodle and the Afterparty Snuke have in common? Theyre all the work of world-class con artist and master bafflegabber Radar Hoverlander. Radars been on the snuke since childhood but hes still looking for his California Roll the one big scam thatll set him up in sushi for life. Trouble arrives in the stunning sassy package of Allie Quinneither the last true innocent or a con artist so slick she makes Radar look like a Quaker. Radars hapless sidekick Vic Mirplo a lovable loser who couldnt con a kid out of a candy cane thinks Radars being played. But if love is blind its also deaf dumb and stupid and before Radar knows it hes sucked into a vortex of double- triple- quadruple-crosses thatll either net him his precious California Roll or put him in a hole in the ground. As timeless as a perpetual-motion machine as timely as a Madoff arraignment The California Roll brings you deep inside the world of con artistry where every fact is fiction and the second liar never has a chance. From the Hardcover edition.