| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-03-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 488 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Publisher's Note As explosive, scary and passionate as The Godfather, but all true! -- An expose of America's most secret crime families, who call themselves the "Travelers". -- No competition no other writer has been able to gather detailed information about the clans. -- Scam, which took 15 years to research, is fully documented with interviews of several hundred individuals, court records, arrest warrants, and police reports. From its opening account of a headline-making, multi-million dollar scare against Disney World to a young woman con artist's brutal murder by a crooked cop, Scam grabs one's attention and holds it fast while it relates a story of swindles, family betrayal and violent death. The first book ever written to focus entirely on the clans of Irish, Scottish and English "Travelers", it follows the first-hand exploits of individual clan members from their tumultuous childhoods to their tragic deaths. "They've been here since the beginning of time, but they don't exist, especially as far as the federal government is concerned". -- An Ohio policemen Exerpt from Scam "The slickest, most successful clan of bunco, film-flam artists in the United Stares". -- Bess Myerson, Former New York Consumer Affairs Commissioner Exerpt from Scam
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