Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World by Sandford, Christopher

Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World

'Fascinating' Daily Mail'An incredible story' Daily Mirror??The period after the First World War was a golden age...
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Author: Christopher Sandford
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Language: English
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Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World by Sandford, Christopher

Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World

$79.15

Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World

$79.15
Author: Christopher Sandford
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

'Fascinating' Daily Mail

'An incredible story' Daily Mirror?

?The period after the First World War was a golden age for the confidence man. 'A new kind of entrepreneur is stirring amongst us, ' The Times wrote in 1919. 'He is prone to the most detestable tactics, and is a stranger to charity and public spirit. One may nonetheless note his acuity in separating others from their money.'

Enter Victor Lustig (not his real name). An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, by the age of sixteen he had learned how to hustle at billiards and lay odds at the local racecourse. By nineteen he had acquired a livid facial scar in an altercation with a jealous husband.

That blemish aside, he was a man of athletic good looks, with a taste for larceny and foreign intrigue. He spoke six languages and went under nearly as many aliases in the course of a continent-hopping life that also saw him act as a double (or possibly triple) agent. Along the way, he found time to dupe an impressive variety of banks and hotels on both sides of the Atlantic; to escape from no fewer than three supposedly impregnable prisons; and to swindle Al Capone out of thousands of dollars, while living to tell the tale. Undoubtedly the greatest of his hoaxes was the sale, to a wealthy but gullible Parisian scrap-metal dealer, of the Eiffel Tower in 1925.

In a narrative that thrills like a crime caper, best-selling biographer Christopher Sandford draws on newly released documents to tell the whole story of the greatest conman of the twentieth century.



Author: Christopher Sandford
Publisher: History Press
Published: 05/01/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780750993678


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2022 pg. 7

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