It started, as most things do, with a pint. For Arthur and his pub mates, the government's failure to solve the housing crisis isn't incompetence-it's a conspiracy. They're convinced an entire town has been fabricated to fudge the numbers, and they've just volunteered newly retired John to be their man on the inside. Armed with little more than a train ticket and a healthy dose of suspicion, John travels to the heart of the alleged deception: Letchworth Garden City. What he finds is bizarre. Is he uncovering the most elaborate hoax in British history, or has he just discovered a very nice town after one too many pints? (20,000 words)