Three friends. Three countries. Three years of lies.It started with a crypto scam. Wealth Coach Maximilian added 256 strangers to a group chat called MOONSHOT PROFITS VIP, promised them ten times their money and vanished. Everyone left, except three people too lazy to press Exit.Three years later, they're best friends, and almost everything they've told each other is technically true.Judge says he's a feared criminal court judge in Istanbul. He's really a Sunday-league football referee whom both teams hate.Vasili says he was special forces in Belgrade. He's really a driving instructor with a rusty Zastava and a second brake pedal.Parag says he's a tech CEO in Pune about to go public. His app has eleven users, and nine of them are his relatives.Then someone suggests meeting in real life, and nobody can say no without admitting the truth.One wrong hotel lobby later, the three of them have been mistaken for an elite security team and hired to guard a forty-million-euro necklace at the wedding of the year. By midnight, it's gone, and the bride's billionaire father has made it very clear who he'll blame.To get it back, they'll need a referee's eye for a fake fall, an instructor's nerve in Istanbul traffic, six hundred wedding guests' photos and a chase across the Galata Bridge. Eventually, they'll also need the truth.The Group Chat is a warm, fast, funny story about friendship, family and lying your way to exactly where you needed to be.Perfect for readers who love:feel-good comedies with big heartscapers where the heroes are hopelessly underqualifiedanyone who has ever exaggerated a little in a group chat Read more
