The Great Fall Guy reframes The Great Gatsby. Told through the voice of a weary narrator who sees through the champagne sheen of the Jazz Age, Daisy is now a lethal femme fatale and Gatsby is a doomed dupe in a rigged America. This retelling fuses Fitzgerald’s lyrical fatalism with the stripped-down grit of noir—something Fitzgerald himself came to admire later in life. The dream is still green, but now it’s neon-lit and flickering—and we finally see the con behind the curtain. A must-read for fans of literary reinvention, American mythology, and stories that bite. Enjoy Fitzgerald’s lush myth reworked as a bleak morality play. International Gold Winner of the Readers’ Choice Book Awards (What Light Was), literary enthusiasts Shawn Hays and Stephen Hays have co-authored The Great Fall Guy, reframing Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in the noir style of Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon. This volume contains the new noir story The Great Fall Guy and republications of The Great Gatsby (edited 1925 edition) and The Maltese Falcon (revised 1929 edition).