“In his truly wild first novel, Andrew Farkas smashes history straight through the looking glass to offer a world of Orwellian chill and Strangelovian élan. Indeed, the whole beautifully complex, carnivalesque bundle dances with uncommonly light and dexterous step. Even when it gets dark. And man does it ever. 'The Big Red Herring' is a revisioned century’s worth of truth and hoax, pain and fun.” - Laird Hunt Author of THE EVENING ROAD