Spanish Fly

by Will Ferguson

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 blow 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.

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Will Ferguson's debut novel, HappinessTM, has been published in thirty-three countries and twenty-six languages around the world. It was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Canada and the Caribbean: First Novel) and went on to win the Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. With his brother Ian, he wrote the wildly successful humour book How to Be a Canadian, which won the CBA Libris Award for Non-fiction Book of the Year. Will's travel memoir Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw was an immediate bestseller and won Ferguson his second Leacock Medal for Humour. His most recent book is Hitching Rides with Buddha: A Journey Across Japan. Will lives in Calgary with his wife and their two young sons.

Award winning story teller Will Ferguson tells the coming of age story of Jack McGreary, a bright young man who with two new found friends, evolves into a successful scam artist in the United States during the Great Depression. The author gives a historical account of many of the social issues of the time as well as the moral struggles of a successful con man, and wraps them in a well told story.