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"Wonderfully mischievous...as soulful and morally committed as it is funny and clever...If The Thieves of Manhattan were nothing more than a boisterous skewering of the crisis-ridden publishing industry-a soft target already lampooned in countless romans à clef-it would still be a gas. But Langer has grander existential plans...Read The Thieves of Manhattan once, and it's a wild ride through a ripping yarn. Read it twice, and you'll discover that Langer, unlike his unworldly protagonist, is a subtly cunning foreshadower of plot and theme."-The Los Angeles Times
"As a lampoon of the modern book industry, The Thieves of Manhattan is near perfection. With its vicious satire of the culture of celebrity and the loss of principles in the A Million Little Pieces scandal, it makes an exciting read that will put a dark smile on the face of anyone discouraged by the downward spiral of literature."-The Daily Beast
"Hysterically funny... Langer has written an immensely clever novel, by turns tenderhearted and satirical-an affecting, altogether plausible portrait of one writer's passage through good times and bad. Yes, the book is a send-up of an industry obsessed with the bottom line and embarrassingly susceptible to James Frey's snake oil charms. Yes, Langer's critique is accurate and amusing. But The Thieves of Manhattan is finally a marvelous yarn, a glorious paean to good books and to those who shepherd them into the world, a tale of redemption as cheering as Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys."-The Chicago Tribune
"The Thieves of Manhattan may be to publishing what Joseph Heller's Catch-22 was to the military."-Associated Press
"What drives Langer's black-humored dystopia is his formidable blend of righteous cynicism, screwball noir and socially observant satire. It's an easily believable netherworld teeming with shit-talking agents and corrupted publishers continually turning bad publicity into profit...Langer leaves you with some serious philosophizing on the increasing interchangeability of concepts like truth and fiction in a media-blitz age."-Time Out New York
"[An] amusing new novel, a satiric barb aimed directly at the literary world and those who seek to subvert it for fame, money, and-please God-a shot at Oprah...[Langer's] references are clever, snarky, and right on target."-The Miami Herald
"Langer serves the literary world its own head on a platter, most notably the phonies and the fakers...[A] timely satire...a light and fast read, with short chapters and plot twists every couple of pages."-San Francisco Chronicle
"The Thieves of Manhattan arrives with a twinkle and a smirk, and from the very start the reader knows the game is on...There is enough puzzlement here to occupy a book club from first sip to dessert."-Chicago Sun-Times
"If you want to feel somewhat literary and very hip, try jumping on the speedy ride that is The Thieves of Manhattan. Novelist Adam Langer delivers plenty of cool in this satire of the New York literary scene in which aspiring writer Ian Minot is tempted - after observing the unearned success of others - into taking part in a literary scam. The question, however, becomes: Who is really scamming whom?"-Christian Science Monitor
"How many novels begin with a Milli Vanilli quote? In the case of the funny and sharp Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer, the lyric 'Girl you know it's true' is particularly apt, as this clever tale blurs fact and fiction to riotous effect."-Very Short List
"As clever a quick read as you can ever ask for. His character Ian is hilariously hapless and self-deprecating. The book crackles with humor and insight into not only publishing corruption, but also the history of modern literature."-Edge
"Love and art merge with cheerful cynicism in Langer's madcap skewering of New York's personality-mad publishing industry." -Vogue
"An über-hip caper...Part Bright Lights, Big City, part The Grifters, this delicious satire of the literary world is peppere
