If recently he was talking about the case of the Austrian swindler Filek, about whose life and work he has written a book Ignacio Martínez de Pisón (highlighting the chapter on him deceived Franco), I am about to introduce you now to the American version of this European rogue.
Deep down, it may be that Clark Rockefeller, one of the greatest con artists and ultimately also psychopath that the United States has produced, somehow chose the budding writer Walter Kirn, so that their unique relationship would end up materializing in this book Blood does not lie .
It may seem like a coincidence that Walter Kirn took over the commission of an animal shelter to take a dog to its new owner, the potentate Clark Rockefeller. In fact, it was about traveling almost the entire United States from west to east to deliver the dog to its new owner. It was 1998 and the still young Walter accepted an adventure of such depth.
In a great way, Walter Kirn would agree to lend that hand for the good of the animal, without remotely imagining who the rich figurative really was under whose skin he was hiding. Christian Gerhartsreiter, a nondescript guy capable of fooling everyone for a while (but not everyone all the time, as Abraham Lincoln would say).
The point is that the time of the deception lasted for more than a decade. The so-called Rockefeller behaved with such eccentricity and impunity that really the minor details such as not assuming the payment of a sad coffee seemed details without the slightest importance. He was a guy with a private plane who took him here and there, around the world on his business for his stock market or on the mere whim of a work of art about to be auctioned.
And the matter could be comical. The impostor capable of cajoling his entire environment. The picaresque spread here and there on both sides of the world.
Yes, it could have been hilarious. If not for the true Rockefeller ended up being discovered as a murderer with a silent victim behind him.
When the fake Clark Rockefeller tried to kidnap his own daughter back in 2008, the author acknowledges his abduction because he even defended him.
In this book you can find all the nuances of a unique story that reveals the perverse capacity of the disturbed human being towards the ideal of success.
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