What I’m Reading: The Scam List

Oh, now this is an entertaining book. I’m not sure if it’s good for you, exactly, but it’s definitely entertaining. The Scam List, by Kurt Dinan, follows Boone McReedy, a seventeen-year-old whose dad is in jail for running con jobs, and who fears he’s on the same course.

Boone likes to drink at the Underground, a bar in his small Ohio town that doesn’t check his fake ID too carefully, where he can flirt and make out with girls with, let’s say, less than stellar judgment. But what he likes mos...