White Con

Picking up where TrickBaby left off, we dive into the world of Johnny O'Brien, better known as White Folks. After learning to use his fair skin to his advantage to rise to the top of the Chicago con game, Folks is back for the big money and the big stakes of the long con. Following the death of his partner and mentor, Blue, Folks takes off for Canada. Having honed his skills and polished his acting, Johnny is done cheating marks out of small money.

From a famous actor and an experienced journalist, a wildly entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, one of the greatest frauds in history and on course for a spectacular crash.

Entre sábanas con un hacker cuenta la increíble historia oculta tras la filtración de datos más impactante de la era de internet: el hackeo de Ashley Madison. De un minuto a otro, millones de personas casadas vieron sus nombres, direcciones y preferencias sexuales publicadas en línea en una base de datos que cualquiera podía consultar.

Boaz Manor was a finance wunderkind. He started a hedge-fund company in Canada and later burst onto Wall Street with a product that could transform the crypto market. By all accounts, he was incredibly hard-working. Possibly brilliant. And...a shameless con man who ended up wanted in multiple countries. Chasing Boaz Manor explores Boaz’s schemes through the perspective of those he left in his wake.

The thrilling novel that launched #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer's career, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less. THE SWINDLE IS INGENIOUS The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common...

A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions—who eventually loses everything that is most important to her. In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith shares her deeply personal and...

El pasado de Misha Vasiliev es una pesadilla; una de la que nunca podrá escapar por completo. Rescatado de una red de tráfico humano en Moscú por la CIA, es llevado a Estados Unidos, desesperado por tener una oportunidad de empezar de nuevo. Pero nada es realmente gratis, y mientras Misha lidia con su traumático pasado, conoce a Jack Robins; un brillante pero quebrado cirujano de trauma atrapado en un ciclo de dolor tras la muerte de su esposo. Al principio, Jack se muestra indiferente. Pero hay algo en el joven atormentado que lo atrae irremediablemente. Su conexión es innegable, ...

For decades, Bernard Madoff built an image of absolute trust. He was a Wall Street insider, a respected financier, a former chairman of NASDAQ, and a man whose reputation carried extraordinary weight among investors, celebrities, charities, hedge funds, and financial institutions around the world. Clients believed their money was safe with him because everyone else believed it too. Behind that reputation, however, existed one of the largest financial frauds in modern history. THE MADOFF SCHEME: Wall Street’s Infamous Con is a gripping investigative examination of how Bernard Madoff ...

Despite his trimmer waistline, his girlfriend Lucy's affections for him seem to have inexplicably cooled. So when Lindy suggests the supper club members join a Mexican cooking class, James leaps at the chance to try something new. The Flab Five's classmates include Shenandoah Star Ledger editor Murphy Alistair and twin sisters with supermodel physiques. When one of the sisters is murdered during a school field trip to Luray Caverns, the amateur sleuths set out to catch the killer.

Born into one of America's most illustrious trading families, Sam Israel was determined to strike out on his own. After apprenticing with one of the greatest traders of the 1980s, he founded his own fast-growing hedge fund, promising investors extraordinary returns. But it was all an elaborate charade.

Immerse yourself and unveil the "Transformation of Damaged Hearts" that are sealed with an " I Do". Step into a world of Enemies to Lovers, Instalove & Second Chance Love. Forget Me Not Cowboy Enemies to Lovers, Small Town, Mistaken Identity, Amnesia, Romance I am a Cowboy with a broken heart until Darla enters my life. We Start as enemies and end as lovers until the tragic day I am trampled by a Black Stallion. I am left with no memory of the woman who mended my broken heart. Yet as strangers, our attraction for one another is stronger than ever. But can our love survive the magnitude of ...

They didn't hack computers. They hacked minds. Five true stories of deception so deep, the victims never saw it coming. BEHIND THE SUIT — VOLUME 1: Five True Stories of Impersonators, Pretenders, and Psychological Frauds takes you inside the world of face-to-face impostors. No keyboards. No firewalls. Just a voice, a face, and a lie so convincing it shattered lives. Inside this book: The Puppet Master — a British con artist who controlled his victims like marionettes, making them abandon their families and empty their bank accounts. Police called him the most dangerous manipulator they ...

Ten years in prison and the dominant Abel Delgado is finally home–What did he do? I have no idea, but I refuse to fall in love with an ex-con, innocent or not! Running my deceased father’s pizzeria is challenging at times, so I decided to be a good Samaritan and hire Abel. But hiring a felon is scary, especially one that is cocky, rigid, and a “KNOW IT ALL.” I have a few simple rules: protect the pizzeria, customers and my son from this So-called innocent ex-con and watch his every move. But the more I keep my eyes on him, the more I cannot keep my eyes off him! I cannot ignore ...

In July 1965, teenagers Sylvia and Jenny Likens were left in the temporary care of Gertrude Baniszewski, a middle-aged single mother, and her seven children. The Baniszewski household was overrun with children. There were few rules and ample freedom. Sadly, the environment created a dangerous hierarchy of social Darwinism where the strong preyed on the weak. What transpired in the following three months was both riveting and chilling.

Il passato di Misha Vasiliev è un incubo da cui non potrà mai davvero fuggire. Salvato da un giro di tratta di esseri umani a Mosca dalla CIA, viene portato in America, disperato per avere una possibilità di una nuova vita. Ma nulla è mai davvero gratuito, e mentre Misha lotta con il suo passato traumatico, incontra Jack Robins: un chirurgo traumatologo brillante ma spezzato, intrappolato in un ciclo di dolore dopo la morte di suo marito. Quando conosce Misha, Jack è indifferente, all’inizio. Ma c’è qualcosa in quel giovane tormentato che lo attrae. La loro connessione è ...

A retired engineer. A former realtor. Fifty years of investing experience between them. They still lost $126,000 to a crypto scam in five months. Smart People Get Scammed Too tells the true story of Mike and Mary — a financially savvy couple who were targeted by an organized AI investment fraud operation that used free classes, fake trading platforms, and a sophisticated community to steal their retirement savings. Their paid-off car. Their camper. And nearly their home. This isn’t a story about careless people making obvious mistakes. It’s a story about how professional scammers use ...

Gerard Lee Bevan was the black sheep of one of London's most respectable banking families. A high-living womanizer and upper-class shyster of almost pantomime proportions, he exploited a glittering range of social connections. After a long run of success in City dealings he perpetrated a massive fraud which ruined both the City Equitable Fire Insurance Company and his stockbroking firm, Ellis & Co. He fled the country and was eventually arrested, tried, and jailed.

En Antes de Que Vea (Un Misterio con Mackenzie White, Libro 2), la agente del FBI en formación Mackenzie White se esfuerza por dejar su marca en la academia del FBI en Quantico, tratando de probar su valía como mujer y como agente transferida de Nebraska. Mas todo eso cambia cuando se descubre el cadáver de una mujer en un basurero. El asesinato tiene sorprendentes puntos en común con el Asesino del Espantapájaros - el caso que lanzó a Mackenzie a la fama en Nebraska, el FBI decide saltarse el protocolo y darle a Mackenzie una oportunidad en el caso.

Se encuentra el cadáver de una mujer en los maizales de Nebraska, atado a un poste, víctima de un asesino perturbado. No pasa mucho tiempo antes de que la policía caiga en la cuenta de que hay un asesino en serie que está suelto - y que la matanza no ha hecho más que empezar. A la detective Mackenzie White, joven, decidida, más preparada que los hombres chapados a la antigua de su comisaría local, le encargan con cierta reticencia su resolución. Por mucho que los demás agentes odien admitirlo, necesitan de sus ideas jóvenes y originales, que ya han logrado solucionar casos sin resolver que les han dejado sin palabras.

En ANTES DE QUE SE LLEVE (Un Misterio con Mackenzie White - Libro 4), la recién graduada agente del FBI Mackenzie White recibe órdenes para encargarse de un nuevo y angustioso caso. En los campos de Iowa están desapareciendo mujeres, y empieza a surgir una pauta. Se teme que haya un asesino en serie haciendo de las suyas, con un ritmo ascendente. Dados sus orígenes en el Medio Oeste, Mackenzie es elegida como la candidata ideal.