"Deserves to sell a million, because the fact is more weird than any fiction and the story is
carried like a time bomb through the pages. Nothing can detract from Irving's superb skill as a writer."
London Express

"A story which reads like the best thriller fiction and which contains the seeds of a dozen movie scripts.
Mysterious meetings, false passports, a beautiful Danish baroness, Swiss bank accounts.Alfred
Hitchcock would handle the whole thing perfectly."Tatler

Novelist Clifford Irving's "autobiography" of Howard Hughes was the literary hoax of our time. This no-holds-barred
confession by the author was first published in Great Britain in 1997, where it became a best-seller. But no
American hardcover house would touch it until now. Why? The answer is implicit in this ultimate caper story of
daring, treachery, and corruption.

As fast-paced and exciting as any spy novel, The Hoax involves the reader at every devilish turn. Irving
describes how the hoax developed, like a Chinese puzzle, from its madcap beginning to the final startling
confession, a witty and nail-biting story of international intrigue and beautiful women, of powerful corporate
executives and jet-set rogues, of cover-ups and headlines.

Clifford Irving was born in New York City and attended Cornell University. Since serving his jail time for The Hoax, he has continued to write books. Irving now lives in Aspen, Colorado.

Joe Barrett has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials. He has narrated books by such authors as Larry McMurtry, Jay McInerney, and Andy McNab.