The author tells the true story of Christian Michael Longo, his arrest for murdering his family, and how he fled to Mexico and assumed Michael Finkel's identity; and relates his own firing from the New York Times magazine.
A freak accident allows Cross Damon to flee his wife and job in Chicago, for Harlem and then Greenwich Village. But his new freedom soon seems cursed. He can't become involved with anyone without hurting them.
In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken.
Contains ten stories of true crime, fraud, and adventure, including accounts of a fake Asian princess, master thief Frank Abagnale, and a teen who "stole" a subway in 1993.
