"The King of Lies moves and reads like a book on fire… An amazing new talent." – Pat Conroy *** Jackson Workman Pickens – 'Work' to his friends – an unambitious lawyer in a small Southern town, has some serious baggage. His mother died a year ago from a 'fall' down the family's colonial staircase and his father, Ezra, has been missing ever since. Work is left to deal with his psychologically da...