Nonfiction Book Group

Empire of deception: the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated a nation by Dean Jobb
It was a time of unregulated madness. At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties a charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz enticed hundreds of people to invest in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923 an international manhunt began that lasted almost a year.