SPANISH FLY

Will Ferguson takes us on a wild romp across the dust bowl of West Texas.The year is 1939. The world is on the brink of war, and the American Dreamis rusting out from the inside. Jack McGreary is adrift in the fadedboomtown of Paradise Flats. Raised by his eccentric and increasinglyerratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. He outsmarts thelocal businessmen, out-argues the local priest, and even outplays a gangof hardened carnies at a seedy fairground. And when a pair of fast-talkingswindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in withthem. Together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest,staging a series of elaborate and often hilarious cons. Young Jack isswept along into a world of hot jazz and cold calculating crimes of theheart, as the sexual tension between him and Miss Rose comes to a boil.Someone is being set up. Are Miss Rose and Virgil playing Jack? Or is Jackplaying them?