The Greatest Hoax

THE GREATEST HOAX ON EARTH: CATCHING TRUTH WHILE WE CAN

This book is catching some buzz...

Is the con mans con a con?

Are you familiar with the name Frank Abagnale? If not you may remember a movie that came out in 2002 CATCH ME IF YOU CAN... a biographical crime film based on Abagnale’s life. 

The Greatest Hoax reveals the very different world of a grown man still running small-time grifts in the mid-1970s-living in his parole officer's garage after he was caught stealing from a Houston children's camp. This makes his overnight rise to stardom all the more stunning. Selling fiction as fact, the con man found his greatest mark in global audiences. And the world bought it. In the inverted reality of the post-truth era, this book reveals that Frank W. Abagnale may have earned the mantle of "the world's greatest con man" for entirely different reasons.

Thank you @emily_keough_publicity for this gifted copy! 

Are you familiar with this story? Or did you ever watch the movie? 

For reference growing up Leo was my guy... after Pauly Shore 🥰