The California Roll, John Vorhaus
The California Roll, John Vorhaus
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The California Roll
A Novel

Author: John Vorhaus

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/30/2010

Synopsis

What do the Merlin Game, the Penny Skim, the Doolally Snadoodle, and the Afterparty Snuke have in common? They're all the work of world-class con artist and master bafflegabber Radar Hoverlander. Radar's been "on the snuke" since childhood, but he's still looking for his California Roll, the one big scam that'll set him up in sushi for life.

Trouble arrives in the stunning, sassy package of Allie Quinn—either the last true innocent or a con artist so slick she makes Radar look like a Quaker. Radar's hapless sidekick, Vic Mirplo, a lovable loser who couldn't con a kid out of a candy cane, thinks Radar is being played. But if love is blind, it's also deaf, dumb, and stupid, and before Radar knows it, he's sucked into a vortex of double-, triple-, and quadruple-crosses that'll 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.

About John Vorhaus

John Vorhaus is best known as the author of The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even if You're Not. An international consultant in television and film script development, John has worked for television networks, film schools, and production companies in thirty countries on four continents. His own screenwriting credits include Married… with Children, Head of the Class, The Sentinel, and The Flash. He is also the author of the six-volume Killer Poker series, plus miscellaneous other books on the subject, including the novel Under the Gun.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on December 12, 2013

Oh, what a joy this was to read -- full of linguistic inventiveness and often outrageously funny. Radar Hoverlander is a highly successful grifter: he makes a good living by running scams, relying on his wits and his innate talents for bafflegab. When he runs into the lovely Allie Quinn at a party th......more

Goodreads review by Maddy on November 04, 2010

PROTAGONIST: Radar Hoverlander, con artist RATING: 3.25 Radar Hoverlander has been a con artist since childhood. Even in grade school, he pulled off some elementary snukes (scams or the people who perform them). Now he’s considered one of the experts in the field. Consequently, he is quite surprised w......more

Goodreads review by Turi on January 19, 2010

Excellent, snappy novel about a L.A. based con artist who gets too wrapped up in his own "snuke." The language is wonderful - lingo and inside puns that sometimes don't catch up with you until the next line. Some passages feel like they should be accompanied by a brushed high hat. Bewilderingly twis......more

Goodreads review by Mark on March 20, 2014

Radar Hoverlander makes his living as a con man. But when he meets a beautiful woman who wants him to help her grandfather run a scam, he may be in well over his head. This was a fun caper out of my normal cozy realm. Plenty of twists and some characters I could like even if they weren't normally th......more

Goodreads review by Jenine on January 03, 2013

Charming for the gift of gab/vocab alone. I liked the first two thirds better than the end but ends are hard. I pulled this off the shelf because I saw the next one in the series: The Albuquerque Turkey. Kinda have to get that one.......more

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