Sting and the Police

Today's featured book is THE KING OF STING: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw by Craig Glazer and Sal Manna.

If you are a serious non-fiction fan, as I am, you probably cannot read the following book description without that knowing flinch of "damn, another book I wanna read," skittering through your brain:

No one could have predicted that a petty crime against Craig Glazer would be the catalyst for a life on the edge. But then again, nothing about Craig Glazer was predictable. A skinny Jewish kid from Kansas City, Glazer was attending Arizona State University when he was robbed while buying marijuana for his fraternity brothers. His head filled with lessons in crime and criminals learned from the movies, Craig decided to get even with the dealers who robbed him. He set up his first fake "sting," pretending to be law enforcement. Unbelievably, his plan worked, and it set him on a path that was as unlikely as it was dangerous. He masterminded a two-year spree of stings that stretched from Boston, Chicago, and Cleveland to Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. Posing as everything from local police to IRS agents to hotel managers, he and his crew set up cons and raked in a fortune. Craig and partner Donald Woodbeck had such success that the Attorney General's office asked them for help ferreting out some of the most sought-after drug lords in the country. It was a dangerous double life. Like many other rags to riches stories, Craig's does not lead to a Hollywood happy ending. There was payback. Woodbeck was murdered and Craig landed in prison. The King of Sting is a story of wanting to be famous, even if it meant becoming infamous.

I know I have been using a lot of copy-and-paste descriptions lately but give me a break...these are previews.

Apparently, the book has been optioned by Hollywood, so read the book before it is "enhanced" by screenwriters.

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