"Yellow Kid" Weil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Yellow Kid" Weil write by J. R. Weil. This book was released on 2011. "Yellow Kid" Weil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everywhere the Yellow Kid looks he sees money—too bad it's yours.
Con Man
Con Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Con Man write by J.R. Weil. This book was released on 2004-07-13. Con Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil, a man who could—and often did—pull off scams to outshine The Sting. In his long career as a confidence man, Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil swindled the public of more than eight million dollars and established the reputation for robbery and trickery. Always beating the police at their own game, “Yellow Kid” used phony oil deals, women, fixed races, and an endless list of other tricks to best an increasingly gullible public. One day, he was Dr. Henri Reuel, a noted geologist who traveled around and told his hosts that he was a representative for a big oil company—all the while draining them of the cash they gave him to “invest in fuel.” The next day, he was director of the Elysium Development Company, promising land to innocent believers while robbing them in recording and abstract fees. Or he was a chemist par excellence who had discovered how to copy dollar bills; promising to increase your fortune, he would multiply your bills—then take the booty once the police arrived. Originally published in 1948, here is Weil’s true and amazing story, with a smart and witty Afterword by none other than Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, who profiled “Yellow Kid” for The Reporter in 1956. It is undeniable proof that “Yellow Kid” was the con man par excellence—the virtuoso scam artist, bar none.
"Yellow Kid" Weil
"Yellow Kid" Weil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Yellow Kid" Weil write by J.R. Weil. This book was released on 2011-02-22. "Yellow Kid" Weil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters: welcome to the world of confidence men. You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks who lost it all to his ingenuity—$8,000,000 by some estimations. Fixed horse races, bad real-estate deals, even a money-making machine—all were tools of the trade for the Kid and his associates: the Swede, the Butterine Kid, the Harmony Kid, Fats Levine, and others. The Sting (1973), starring Paul Newman and based largely on the story of the Yellow Kid, is entertaining, but is no match for the real deal.
Out of the Night
Out of the Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Out of the Night write by Jan Valtin. This book was released on 2020-01-30. Out of the Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bestseller in 1941, selected by the Book of the Month Club for a special edition and described by Book of the Month Club News as: “...full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy...It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been.” The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920’s and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of maritime, organizing worldwide for the Comintern, only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade’s attempts to kill him. As a professional revolutionary, agitator, spy and would-be assassin, Krebs traveled the globe from Germany to China, India to Sierra Leon, Moscow to the United States where a botched assassination attempt landed him a stint in San Quentin. From his spellbinding account of artful deception to gain release from a Nazi prison and his work as a double-agent within the Gestapo, to his vivid depiction of a Communist Party fraught with intrigue and subterfuge, Krebs gives an unflinching portrayal of the internal machinations of both parties.
"YELLOW KID" WEIL
"YELLOW KID" WEIL - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "YELLOW KID" WEIL write by JOSEPH R. WEIL. This book was released on 2018. "YELLOW KID" WEIL available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
