For the past two years, Dawson Hunter has been sleeping with his brother's wife. But now he's getting married, to a bright, cheerful young woman named Tabby-who happens to belong to a large and swiftly growing doomsday cult. Suddenly Dawson finds himself torn between a woman he can't resist and a woman he just might actually love. He might expect some good advice from his younger brother, Eric, but Eric is having problems of his own; he's been struggling with his own romantic feelings for a man named Miles-who was transformed years ago into a talking goose-and after discovering a vial of strange blue powder hidden away by his own father, the only thing Eric wants is the truth.

As the Hunters gather in Cleveland for Dawson's unusually quick wedding, Eric resolves to tell their brother, Richard Milhous, the truth about his wife's affair. While Dawson scrambles to cover his tracks, Richard Milhous searches for a way to save his broken marriage, but the secrets they uncover may not be the secrets that any of them expected. Especially since the boys' mother, Gloria, has become entangled in her own conspiracy, one involving her pharmaceutical business, the CIA, and a select test market of forty-five American cities.

LIARS AND THIEVES: A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FABLE is a personal drama set in a satirical world, a large-scale character study shot through with government paranoia, economic collapse, and the ongoing battle for the rights of every man, woman, and goose in a splintered America.