Виктор Люстиг: Человек, который обманул мир КРИСТОФЕР СЭНДФОРД

Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World

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.

• Autor: Christopher Sandford
• Wydawnictwo: The History Press
• Rok wydania: 2021
• Okładka: twarda
• Liczba stron: 320
• Wymiary: 15.6 x 23.4 x 3.2 cm
• Ilustracje: 27 Illustrations, black and white
• Język: angielski
• ISBN: 9780750993678