Frank W. Abagnale was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot’s uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one.
A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy.
From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s.
