"Worthy" is the story of Ludmilaor Worthy, as she comes to be knowna former con artist from Eastern Europe managing an eccentric, failing strip club in Tampa for her lover, Leo. Though there is much she won t reveal, she gradually unravels the story of her love affair twenty years earlier with Theodore, an erratic literature professor who embraces an ideology built around what he calls the Four Books: Mann s "Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, " Nabokov s "Despair, " Melville s "The Confidence-Man, " and Camus s "The Fall." Seduced by the scofflaws in these novels, Theodore and...