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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 548 pages
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Jeffrey Archer · 255 pages
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. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe. A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man. With nothing left to lose four strangers are about to come together—ea
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett · 416 pages
Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, w
Await Your Reply
Dan Chaon · 334 pages
The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways–and with unexpected consequences–in acclaimed author Dan Chaon’s gripping, brilliantly written new novel. Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless can’t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Edward Dolnick · 384 pages
The Rooster Bar
John Grisham · 368 pages
"Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady N
Choke
Chuck Palahniuk · 304 pages
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be "saved" by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, go on to send checks to support him. When he's not pulling this
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding · 221 pages
Selling Hitler
Robert Harris · 402 pages
"The extraordinary story of the con job of the century-- the faking of the Hitler "diaries"--Jacket.
The Bible Salesman
Clyde Edgerton · 248 pages
Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the Army during the Second World War. Back on the road in post-war North Carolina , a member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitch-hiking Henry Dampier, an innocent nineteen-year-old Bible salesman. Clearwater immediately recognizes Henry as just the associate he needs--one who will
Smoke in Mirrors
Jayne Ann Krentz · 371 pages
A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast—and died young. But her final scam—embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund—is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora. And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House
Mickey Outside
David Lender · 229 pages
"Former Wall Street whiz turned convict Mickey Steinberg is ready to get out of prison and get back in the game. Most of Mickey's fancy friends from his old life won't take his calls, but he made good connections while doing time and has already hatched a new scheme: to sell a near-perfect forgery of a stolen Van Gogh painting through the shady underground art market. He and his new partner, smoot
The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort · 522 pages
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in h
Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
Ken Perenyi · 368 pages
Ten years after the case was closed by the FBI, an artist with an uncanny ability to mimic the work of the old masters confesses and describes his thirty-year career as a professional art forger.
The one plus one
Jojo Moyes · 480 pages
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
Dean Jobb · 336 pages
"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and yellow journalism only contributed to the excesses. The frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smoot
Good Faith
Jane Smiley · 417 pages
New Jersey realtor Joe Stratford is 40 years old, divorced, and ready for a fresh start. Enter Marcus Burns, a former IRS agent who believes the old rules are meant to be broken. Marcus is enthusiastic about his get-rich-quick plans, but are they the right plans for Joe? And why is the local savings and loan so eager to lend Joe and Marcus the money they need to complete a huge feal estate transac
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo · 339 pages
A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries—many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections todayProvenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a g
Meltdown
Ben Elton · 404 pages
A biting satire of the credit crunch from this hugely popular and bestselling authorFor amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab.But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so instead of burning out,
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
Guy Lawson · 368 pages
The Guide
R.K. Narayan · 221 pages
Rogue is reluctantly cast in the role of a holy man in this ironic comedy of East Indian life.