Catch Me If You Can Lib/E : The True Story of a Real Fake (CD-Audio)

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 sriddell

Written in the first person, this astonishing true crime story tells of how teenaged Frank Abagnale successfully impersonated an airline pilot, a doctor, a lawyer and a college professor - all to back-stop his "career" as a bad check writer. Frank traveled the world and accrued hundreds of thous...

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...