- Swindlers and swindling, Criminal psychology, Fraud, New York Times bestseller
Explores the psyches, motives, and methods of con artists to reveal why they are consistently successful, identifying common hallmarks of cons to share additional insights into the relationship between artists and victims.
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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and cool.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Maria Konnikova
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525427414
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