“With my feet still bound, I lunge for him, just as flame bursts from the barrel.” In the book, Liars Inc. by Paula Stokes, the main character, Max Cantrell, begins a company called Liars, Inc. with his best friend, Preston, and his girlfriend, Parvati. One event leads to another, and Preston goes missing. Max has to figure out what happened to Preston without getting in trouble with the police. Max lied to the police about Preston’s location, he lied about dating Parvati, and Preston lied about who he was his whole life. Max gets accused of murder, has a restraining order taken out against him, and almost gets killed. After this, he began to realize that lying can lead to fatal consequences. To start off my argument, Max lied to the police about Preston’s location when they were out camping together. Preston had asked Max if he would cover for him while Preston traveled to Vegas to meet a mysterious woman named Violet Cain. Max didn’t hesitate to say yes to help his best friend. But little did Max know that the next day, Preston would go missing, and Max would be the first person to be accused of causing his disappearance. Max didn’t think that anything was wrong until his stepmother, Darla, told him, “Claudia DeWitt is on the phone. She wants to talk to you. Apparently, Preston never came home.” (Page Number) Max was the only person the …show more content…
This lie that Preston created led to Max and Parvati almost getting murdered. Preston told Max, “Anna (a social worker) told me I was going to get adopted. A nice couple named Cantrell. A family.” As it turns out, the Cantrells came into the adoption home to adopt Preston, but they fell in love with Max, so they adopted him instead. This was one of the main causes of Preston’s intense rage towards Max and Parvati. As a result of this, Max realized how detrimental all of Preston’s lies could have been to him and his