Fox The Confidence Men

How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78283-560-8
Verlag: Profile
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board and holds fake séances for fellow prisoners. One day, an Ottoman official approaches him with a query: could Jones contact the spirits to find a vast treasure rumoured to be buried nearby? Jones, a lawyer, and Hill, a magician, use the Ouija board - and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception-to build a trap for their captors that will lead them to freedom.

The Confidence Men is a nonfiction thriller featuring strategy, mortal danger and even high farce - and chronicles a profound but unlikely friendship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, Margalit

Über Autor(innen)

Fox, Margalit
Margalit Fox is a journalist, writing for the New York Times. Originally trained as a linguist, her previous book Talking Hands was about the remarkable 'signing village' of Al-Sayyid where only sign language is used. Previously an editor at The New York Times Book Review, Margalit has written numerous articles on language, culture and ideas for The Times, New York Newsday, Variety and other publications.

A winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing,
Margalit Fox trained as a linguist and was a senior writer at
The New York Times. As a former member of the newspaper's celebrated Obituary News Department, she wrote the front-page public sendoffs of some of the leading cultural figures of our age. She has written three previous books,
Conan Doyle for the Defence, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, and
Talking Hands, and lives in Manhattan with her husband, writer and critic George Robinson.