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And what happened to Scales has very little to do with Mickey Haller, and more to do with what Scales is: a con man.
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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 18 Oct. 2024
The volume centered on his great-uncle Freeman Bernstein, an inveterate con man who in the mid-1930s tricked the Nazi government into buying almost $150,000 in nickel — a metal badly needed for armament production — that was in fact scrap metal.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
Yet Ronald Richter, the Austrian physicist whom Perón chose to head his nascent nuclear program, turned out to be part con man and part madman.
—Jacques E. C. Hymans, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2012
Ashford has some choice eerie moments, and Moss-Bachrach knows how to get inside a con man.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 18 Oct. 2024
The volume centered on his great-uncle Freeman Bernstein, an inveterate con man who in the mid-1930s tricked the Nazi government into buying almost $150,000 in nickel — a metal badly needed for armament production — that was in fact scrap metal.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
Yet Ronald Richter, the Austrian physicist whom Perón chose to head his nascent nuclear program, turned out to be part con man and part madman.
—Jacques E. C. Hymans, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2012
Ashford has some choice eerie moments, and Moss-Bachrach knows how to get inside a con man.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Con man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/con%20man. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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