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Title: A wonderful memoir of a daring caper
Review: I read this book many years ago, and loved it, and bought this new paperback edition as gifts for many of my friends. I haven't seen the Richard Gere movie yet but I can't believe it will measure up to the quality of the writing and the amazing edge-of-your-seat and yet literate caper tale that Mr. Irving relates. I know he's meant to be a rogue, but I also know he's one of our best living writers, who has written some splendid novels (including "Trial", "Tom Mix and Pancho Villa," and the great art forgery tale, "Fake.") This current book, a first-person account of the Howard Hughes Hoax back in the 70s, is the way memoirs are meant to be written: from the heart, witty, with not a word out of place. You read this and you think, "I'd like to know this man." He's wise and droll and he's led an adventurous life that few of us even dream of. You can't go wrong, in my opinion, with a Clifford Irving book, and this is one of his best.
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