Deception and Community

Recently Received: The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, by Emmanuel Carrere, Linda Coverdale. Publisher: Picador.

Have you ever lied about something? Of course you have — everyone has at some point in their lives. But have you lied about something really, really big — so big, that you had to keep lying in order to cover up the previous lies until, in the end, the entire house of cards threatened to come crumbling down? Most have thankfully not put themselves in this position, but Jean-Claude Romand did. The consequences for him and his family were tragic, to say the least.

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