Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake (Audiobook)

from psychedelicmicrobus

I liked this book. I was first introduced to Abagnale's story by the movie of the same name. It's a favorite, so naturally when I stumbled across a secondhand copy of the book, I bought it. The book has many more adventures and cons in it than the movie does. I found myself amazed that Abagnale w...

from ozzieslim

I had seen the movie Catch Me If You Can many years ago and when I saw the book, I thought why not? It was a great pick up. This is the thoroughly entertaining true story of Frank Abagnale who, in the 1960's, duped luxury airlines, hotels and banks into cashing forged checks. He began by imperson...

from LibraryCin

3.5 stars Frank Abagnale Jr. was only 16 years old in the 1960s when he left is father's home (his parents had recently separated) and spent years impersonating an airline pilot, a pediatrician, a lawyer, a teacher, before switching to producing counterfeit cheques. Once he was finally caught, af...

from khuggard

This book annoyed me, but I couldn't put it down. I thought that the narrator was cocky and that many of the incidents were extremely exaggerated. On his website Frank Abagnale acknowledges that his ghost writer did in fact embellish many of the events. Still it was fascinating to see how a teena...

from shadowofthewind

Catch me if you can is a fast read. You are taken on a harrowing journey from a "paper hanger" named Frank abignail. Through exploiting the United States bank system Frank would get over $500,000 in the 1960s. He exploits expectations and perceptions to cash bigger and bigger fake checks. It is a...