John Flanagan

Tom Landsaw is out of prison and ready to continue a life interrupted. Fakists is the story of what happened: how a visiting professor at an upstate art school upended a burgeoning relationship, and how Landsaw's ensuing revenge proved disastrous. Along the way, a surfing detective falls for a burned-out curator under fire from the board, priceless art goes missing, and an onslaught of characters inhabit locales from the rainy streets of Donegal to an artist ranch in the California desert. Fakists is a smart and funny meditation on authenticity; a pastoral of bad calls, boozy egoism, false facts, and honest fakes.

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