The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
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“Forget fiction. Pop this jaw-dropper in your beach bag.” —USA Today
This shocking expose goes behind the headlines to uncover the true story of Clark Rockefeller, wealthy scion of a great American family, who kidnapped his own daughter and vanished. The police and FBI were baffled. Tips poured in, but every lead was a dead end … because “Clark Rockefeller” did not exist. In a gripping work of investigative journalism, Mark Seal reveals how German native Christian Gerhartsreiter came to the United States, where he stepped in and out of identities for decades, eventually posing as a Rockefeller for twelve years, married to a wealthy woman who had no idea who he really was. Fast-paced, hypnotic, and now updated with more stunning details, The Man in the Rockefeller Suit chillingly reveals the audacity and cunning of a shape-shifting con man.“Has all the pace and drive of a suspense novel.” — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
“No mystery writer would script this—it’s too unbelievable. — The Christian Science Monitor
“Impeccably reported.” — Los Angeles Times
“Fascinating.” — People (four stars)Mark Seal is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where his piece on Gerhartsreiter was a finalist for a 2010 National Magazine Award. He is also the author of Wildflower. He lives in Aspen, Colorado.When the fingerprints came back from the lab, one thing was finally clear: the kidnapper was definitely not a Rockefeller. He was Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a forty-seven-year-old German immigrant who had come to America as a student in 1978. Shortly after his arrival, he disappeared into what the Boston district attorney would call “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career.” The elaborate, labyrinthine nature of Gerhartsreiter’s shapeshifting adventures, from the time he set foot in this country as a seventeen-year-old student right up to his disappearance, makes his story more bizarre than any gifted writer of fiction could possibly invent.US
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| Dimensions | 0.8500 × 5.3200 × 8.0100 in |
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| Subjects | spy novels, con, true stories, biographies, wealthy, money, crime books, autobiographies, spies, TRU002000, biographies of famous people, true crime books, law and order, mental illness, missing person, con man, conscience, identity theft, imposters, Expose, American family, Deceit, Manipulate, clark rockefeller, rockafeller, search, famous, america, police, crime, true crime, investigative journalism, biography, spy, fiction, criminal, death, Germany, Kidnapping, murder, conspiracy, true story, TRU004000, novels, prison, FBI, danger, criminals, espionage |
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