{"product_id":"the-man-in-the-rockefeller-suit-isbn-9780452298033","title":"The Man in the Rockefeller Suit","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Forget fiction. Pop this jaw-dropper in your beach bag.” —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis shocking expose goes behind the headlines to uncover the true story of Clark Rockefeller, wealthy scion of a great American family, who kidnapped his own daughter and vanished. The police and FBI were baffled. Tips poured in, but every lead was a dead end … because “Clark Rockefeller” did not exist. In a gripping work of investigative journalism, Mark Seal reveals how German native Christian Gerhartsreiter came to the United States, where he stepped in and out of identities for decades, eventually posing as a Rockefeller for twelve years, married to a wealthy woman who had no idea who he really was. Fast-paced, hypnotic, and now updated with more stunning details, \u003ci\u003eThe Man in the Rockefeller Suit\u003c\/i\u003e chillingly reveals the audacity and cunning of a shape-shifting con man.“Has all the pace and drive of a suspense novel.”  — \u003cb\u003eMichiko Kakutani, New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“No mystery writer would script this—it’s too unbelievable.  — \u003cb\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Impeccably reported.”  — \u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fascinating.”  — \u003cb\u003ePeople (four stars)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Seal \u003c\/b\u003eis a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, where his piece on Gerhartsreiter was a finalist for a 2010 National Magazine Award. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eWildflower\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Aspen, Colorado.When the fingerprints came back from the lab, one thing was finally  clear: the kidnapper was definitely not a Rockefeller. He was Christian  Karl Gerhartsreiter, a forty-seven-year-old German immigrant who had  come to America as a student in 1978. Shortly after his arrival, he  disappeared into what the Boston district attorney would call “the  longest con I've seen in my professional career.” The elaborate,  labyrinthine nature of Gerhartsreiter's shapeshifting adventures, from  the time he set foot in this country as a seventeen-year-old student  right up to his disappearance, makes his story more bizarre than any  gifted writer of fiction could possibly invent.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303339512037,"sku":"NP9780452298033","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452298033.jpg?v=1767740392","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-man-in-the-rockefeller-suit-isbn-9780452298033","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}