With the publication of THE AVERAGE AMERICAN MALE and the release of the viral videos that promoted it online?videos that shocked the nation?Chad Kultgen became one of the most talked-about authors of 2007. Now, with THE LIE, Kultgen returns with a more searching novel that reaches even deeper into the craven inner workings of some of most depraved minds in America: college students. His subjects are Brett, Kyle, and Heather: the manipulative rich kid with a disdain for women and a closet full of sex toys; his best friend, the brooding science dork who?s a secret dynamo in bed; and the social climbing sorority girl who, with one lie, can destroy them all. As Heather makes a play for Brett?s money and the ultimate relationship?one that calculatingly leads her into Kyle?s bed and heart?Kultgen will have guys second-guessing at just how cutthroat an average sorority girl can be. Told from all three shockingly uncensored points of view, THE LIE opens up a dark reality where sex is a social tool and status means everything. In the blunt, bracing, and unflinchingly truthful prose that has become his trademark, Kultgen has offered us a second freeze-frame on American culture today.
