Dan Mallory: The Good Liar
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Dan Mallory and the Tom Ripley Novels
In 1999, when Mallory was a sophomore in college, he wrote an article entitled, Take Full Advantage of Suffering. Jessa again talked about how even though Dan studied 20th century detective fiction with a focus on Highsmith, he seemed to miss the lesson. Unlike Tom Ripley, who tricked the aristocracy into believing he was a member of their ranks and got the reader to root for him, Dan Mallory's game missed the memo about classism. He was a man lying about his plight to climb up the corporate ladder.
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