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The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers—until their scheme unraveled

The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man Science_Gift_Guide and loyalty that defined thisThe classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain. Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well researched, and entertaining works of criminology ever written. A