The Masterminds: The Most Calculated Criminals in History

Frank Abagnale's art of impersonation. Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff's mathematics of mass deception. The Great Train Robbery's military-grade operational planning. The Gardner Museum heist's 500 million dollars still missing. The Bogachev cybercrime network's distributed architecture. This book examines exceptional criminal intelligence — and the uncomfortable recognition that the capacity producing it is identical to the capacity that builds legitimate great things.