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