Blood Will Out : The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade (Hardcover)

from akblanchard

Novelist Walter Kirn met the enigmatic man he knew as "Clark Rockefeller" when Kirn was asked to transport a paralyzed dog from Montana to New York so that Rockefeller could adopt her. From there the story gets even stranger. Clark claimed to be a member of the legendary Rockefeller family, whose...

from cherybear

The author actually knew the man who called himself "Clark Rockefeller" but was really an impostor, with a dark past. Kirn thought they were friends! He didn't believe the stories when they first started coming out. Then he realized he had actually let Rockefeller fool him. Kirn actually covers t...

from nyiper

I felt as though the author kept beating himself as he told this story - so much swallowing of the stories from Clark. I kept wondering how he could continue any relationship with this "odd" character - frighteningly easily as it turned out along with the lengthy cast of other well-meaning people...

from ozzer

Kirn's tale of his relationship with the imposter, killer, and pathological liar-Christian Gerhartsreiter, aka Clark Rockefeller-is more about Kirn himself than it is about his subject. Although Clark is an interesting character, he seems to be a pretty generic psychopath and thus much less inter...

from delphica

This is a journalist's account of that time when he befriended a guy who claimed to be a Rockefeller but turned out to be a con man and a murderer. That's on wikipedia (Christian Gerhartsreiter) which is really all anyone needs to know. By about page 4, I was finding the author mostly unbearable,...