Margaret B. Jones wrote a memoir about being raised by a foster mom and and surviving as a drug-dealing gang member. Love and Consequences is the name of the book, out last week, by Penguin. An editor worked with Jones for three years to get the book written. Turns out Jones went to a private Episcopal day school while being raised in the sunny San Fernando Valley by her real family, and that nothing in the book actually happened. And the craziest thing is it all fell apart when her own sister read about the book in The New York Times. The lesson: find the weakest link in whatever scam you're running, and never forget that weak link's birthday. Ever.
Anyway, the best part about having a book called The Modern Con Man (available in just 28 days) is that no one expects it to be entirely truthful.
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