"When a masked gunman barges into his classroom on the last day of school, adjunct English professor Berlin Saunders finds himself playing dead on the floor. Though the doesn't know who the shooter is, he suspects it may be his student Adam Rowan, a returning Iraq vet, who Saunders has formed a unique bond with over the semester. A novel for our times, Lying Bastard captures both a man on the brink and a nation on the brink"--Back cover
