Spanish Fly

Growing up in Texas during the Great Depression, Jack McGreary is a very bright young man with an erratic father who's fallen hard for the Drake Gold scam. His father's dreams of a building a house have gone up with the dust of topsoil that blows across the once-fertile prairies all the way into Can......more

spanish fly recounts the adventures of one young jim mcgreary, a poor but strapping young man who grows up in the depression-era dustbowl in the U.S., in the blink-and-you-miss-it town of paradise flats, its residents suckered by speculators who promised it would be a boom town. jack's grown up not......more

Best known for his humorous travel writing, Will Ferguson shifted away from his preferred genre and wrote a historical fiction book set during The Great Depression. Ferguson's writing isn't dumbed down to Dan Brown levels, but it won't leave you reaching for a dictionary at every turn of the page ei......more

Humor and a wonderfully entertaining look at depression era America and the scam game. Characters were 3D and attractive. A lot of research must have been done to include so much detail of the era. Some fabulous phrases. Suprising ending. One of my top ten reads.......more

I read Ferguson's 419 and thoroughly enjoyed it -- and have been waiting for this book for months to arrive from the library. I was not disappointed. Both books deal with scams...but different locations and different eras. I suggest watching the TV series Sneaky Pete -- similarly themed -- with coun......more