Raised by his father in the dying town of Paradise Flats, Jack McGreary has learned to live by his wits. The year is 1939. Drought has turned America’s heartland into a dust bowl, and the world is on the brink of war.Jack's father wants him to head north to Canada to sign up in the fight against fascism. But when a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blows through town, Jack falls in with them instead.
Together, they go on a crime spree across the Southwest, staging a series of inventive and often hilarious cons, while sexual tension between Jack and Miss Rose grows… Someone is being set up.
- ISBN10 0143055143
- ISBN13 9780143055143
- Publish Date 9 September 2008
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Penguin Canada
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 408
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780143055143