Victor Lustig

The Man Who Conned the World

By: Christopher Sandford

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Hardcover | 28 September 2021

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320 Pages

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The first account of one of history's most notorious con artists, Victor Lustig, written by acclaimed biographer Christopher Sandford.

An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, Victor Lustig was a man of athletic good looks, with a taste for larceny and foreign intrigue. He spoke eight 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 casinos on both sides of the Atlantic; to escape from no fewer than five 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 1921. In a narrative that thrills like a crime caper, bestselling biographer Christopher Sandford tells the whole story of the greatest conman of the twentieth century.

About the Author

Christopher Sandford is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. He has written numerous biographies of music, film and sports stars, as well as Union Jack, a bestselling book on John F. Kennedy's special relationship with Great Britain described by the National Review as 'political history of a high order – the Kennedy book to beat'. Born and raised in England, Christopher currently lives in Seattle.

Industry Reviews

Fascinating

-- Daily Mail

[An] incredible story

-- Matt Roper, Daily Mirror

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