Collapsing financial markets recently destroyed major banks and institutional investors across the world however, beneath the destruction of these legitimate organizations, those who dwell within the underbelly of commerce, now adding desperation to their greed, continued their devious work unabated. Conning Honest Men follows one of these desperate schemes from its inception in the shadows to completion in a rural town as it overwhelms and overtakes those running it as well as those pulled into it. Readers are shown the depths of intriguing characters from sociopaths driven by greed to hard workers driven by hope as the scheme moves from skyscrapers to wheat fields, from intriguing investment to possible disaster.