{"product_id":"books-flim-flam-man-by-jennifer-vogel","title":"Flim-Flam Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eMajor motion picture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlag Day\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003estarring Sean Penn and his daughter Dylan Penn is based on this father-daughter story of a charming criminal--told by the daughter who loved him.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One frosty winter morning in 1995, Jennifer Vogel opened the newspaper and read that her father had gone on the run. John Vogel, fifty-two, had been arrested for single-handedly counterfeiting nearly $20 million in U.S. currency--the fourth-largest sum ever seized by federal agents--and then released pending trial. Though Jennifer hadn't spoken to her father in more than four years, the police suspected he might turn up at her Minneapolis apartment. She examined the shadows outside her building, thought she spotted him at the grocery store and the bus stop. He had simply vanished.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Framed around the six months her father eluded authorities, Jennifer's memoir documents the police chase--stakeouts, lie detector tests, even a segment on \u003ci\u003eUnsolved Mysteries\u003c\/i\u003e--and vividly chronicles her tumultuous childhood while examining her father's legacy. A lifelong criminal who robbed banks, burned down buildings, scammed investors, and even plotted murder, John Vogel was also a hapless dreamer who wrote a novel, baked lemon meringue pies, and took his ten-year-old daughter to see \u003ci\u003eRocky\u003c\/i\u003e in an empty theater on Christmas Eve. When it came time to pass his counterfeit bills, he spent them at Wal-Mart for political reasons.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Culling from memories, photo albums, public documents, and interviews with the handful of people who knew the real John Vogel, this is an intimate and intensely moving psychological portrait of a charismatic, larger-than-life figure--as told by the daughter who nearly followed in his footsteps.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53510549012753,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780743217088.jpg?v=1778176832","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-flim-flam-man-by-jennifer-vogel","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}