The inspiration behind Ridley Scott's new movie-starring Nicolas Cage and Sam Rockwell-by the acclaimed cult author of Anonymous Rex
Eric Garcia grew up in Miami, Florida, and attended Cornell
University and the University of Southern California, where he
majored in creative writing and film. He lives outside Los Angeles
with his wife, daughter, and dachshund, and is currently at work on
Hot and Sweaty Rex, the third novel in his acclaimed series about
dinosaur detective Vincent Rubio. He is also developing a series
for the Sci Fi channel based on the Rex novels. He can be reached
via the Internet at www.ericgarcia.com.
From the Hardcover edition.
“Eric Garcia proves himself an expert at the art of the con.” —The
New York Times Book Review
“A very entertaining book . . . It is Eric Garcia who is the master
flimflam man. . . . [His novels] share a wild imagination
translated in a wry, no-fat writing style. . . . Matchstick Men
fires up the fun, but [this] con man novel is also complex.” —USA
Today
“Eric Garcia pulls off a nifty con game of his own with a
hall-of-mirrors story where what you see is rarely what you get.
It’s an elaborate shell game of mooks and motives, and when the pea
is finally revealed, it’s the most dexterous sleight-of-hand since
Kevin Spacey strolled out of a police station in The Usual
Suspects.” —The Boston Globe
“Matchstick men are con artists who practice the subtle art of
separating the innocent and clueless from their money. Eric Garcia
. . . writes so convincingly and yet somehow sympathetically about
the namesakes of his new novel that you’d swear he’s taken a few
suckers himself.”—GQ
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