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? Theyβre all the work of world-class con artist and master bafflegabber Radar Hoverlander. Radarβs been βon the snukeβ since childhood, but heβs still looking for his California Roll, the one big scam thatβll set him up in sushi for life.
Trouble arrives in the stunning, sassy package of Allie Quinnβeither the last true innocent or a con artist so slick she makes Radar look like a Quaker. Radarβs hapless sidekick, Vic Mirplo, a lovable loser who couldnβt con a kid out of a candy cane, thinks Radarβs being played. But if love is blind, itβs also deaf, dumb and stupid, and before Radar knows it, heβs sucked into a vortex of double-, triple-, quadruple-crosses thatβll 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.
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