Lie

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.