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The Confidence Men
Margalit Fox
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Beschreibung
Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board and holds fake séances for fellow prisoners. One day, an Ottoman official approaches him with a query: could Jones contact the spirits to find a vast treasure rumoured to be buried nearby? Jones, a lawyer, and Hill, a magician, use the Ouija board - and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception-to build a trap for their captors that will lead them to freedom.
The Confidence Men is a nonfiction thriller featuring strategy, mortal danger and even high farce - and chronicles a profound but unlikely friendship.
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Fox, a former senior obituary writer for <i>The New York Times</i> and the author of three previous books, unspools Jones and Hill'
One of the strangest tales of the First World War ... an awesome book made even more valuable by such outstanding research and insight
Margalit Fox is one of the premier narrative storytellers we have today, and <i>The Confidence Men</i> is a wonderfully entertaining brew of history, thrills, and ingenuity, one that highlights the rare occasion when con artistry is employed for the greater public good
Wonderfully researched and written
A true account of one of the most daring and implausible examples of wartime cunning by British soldiers
Rarely has a means of escape seemed as unlikely as a handmade Oujia board and a fake séance ... Margalit Fox'
Exceptionally entertaining ... [Fox] never loosened her grip on my attention
The story is incredible ... this is a great read
<i>The Confidence Men </i>couldn't have come along at a better time. This story of two unlikely con artists - young British officers who use a Ouija board to escape from a Turkish prisoner-of-war camp - is a true delight, guaranteed to lift the spirits of anyone eager to forget today'
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