{"product_id":"9781803997711-victor-lustig-the-man-who-conned-the-world","title":"Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 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.  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.   27 b\/w illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49042189746395,"sku":"9781803997711","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2b46d90c-0653-45f8-9528-684ec90f4135_4b17ece8-cf37-4c03-969d-9bbf5c5e19f0.jpg?v=1785339557","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781803997711-victor-lustig-the-man-who-conned-the-world","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}