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 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 tells the whole story of the greatest conman of the twentieth century.
Publisher: The History Press LtdISBN: 9780750993678Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm
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