Roger Cook's Ten Greatest Conmen

For more than 500 years con artists have been parting the greedy, gullible, unwary or soft-hearted from their money. Roger Cook and Tim Tate, television investigators who have spent a lifetime exposing crooks across the world, tell the extraordinary stories of the men and women who invented the most extravagant scams of all time. These include Frank Abagnale Jr, the real-life 'Catch Me If You Can' conman who successfully impersonated a pilot, a teacher, a lawyer and a paediatrician and swindled $2.5m across 26 countries and Victor Lustig, who sold the Eiffel Tower (twice!). This incredible book is the definitive guide to the world's most outrageous cons.

Roger Cook is Britain's most famous television investigator. For more than 30 years he has broadcasted fearless exposes of crooks, conmen and villains all across the world. Tim Tate is a television producer and author who has worked with Roger Cook on many of his investigations, as well as exposing other major scams across Europe and America.