Not that you can trust the media

From today's review:

A handy, illustrated manual for would-be artists of deception! Todd Robbins is a con man and a good one at that… He parts fools from money with the precision of a surgeon. Even more enjoyable, though, than the nostalgic whisky-and-shadow-soaked hinterland the book evokes is the sinister pleasure Mr. Robbins takes in swindling. "The world is…separated into the Deceivers and the Deceived," he writes. "The sooner you decide which group you want to be in, the better off you will be."

- The New York Observer