Catch Me If You Can
The book Catch Me If You Can, by Frank Abaganle took place in New Rochelle, in the 1960s.Frank Abagnale Jr., a kid in high school, looks up to his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account. While in Manhattan he hopes to regain his dad's losses and try and get his parents back together. While trying to make it on his own he learns how to write bad checks and he becomes really good at it. Just a few years later, the FBI tracks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. He met a lot of women, which were his passion, and he just had the time of his life. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been followed by an FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. Carl is tyring his hardest to catch Frank but everything he does to get close just doesn't ever work and Frank always slips right past him. This really gets Carl heated and he still tries even harder to find him.
During all of this chaos Frank meets this pretty nurse that is young and comes from a wealthy family. He met her when he was posing as a doctor. When frank fell in love with her she brings him home to meet the parents. Frank then asks her dad if he can marry her. They were then going to get married when Carl Hanratty had just found out where he was. Carl and a ton of FBI agents swarmed the house and interrupted a huge engagement party. Frank got away and left his fiance without understanding what was going on. Frank was later caught and put in prison for fraud.
Frank was an amazing con artist and was extremly smart and good at what he did. He did not inherit the gene of becoming a a criminal because no one in his family wasa criminal. He picked up on it on his own and practiced it a lot and thats what made him a master at it. Frank posed as other people and wrote a lot of bad checks. How they didn't catch him instantly blows my mind. What i really liked about this book is that it is a true story. Frank was practically a genius at a young age and was able to outsmart many FBI agents who were many years older than him. Like other criminals he started committing crimes at a young age. Also i beliee one of the reasons he took money was the fact that when he grew up he was poor and didnt have a lot. Also it is a fact that poorer people are more suceptible to crime. All around i really enjoyed reading this book because it helped me figure out some more things about criminals.
The book Catch Me If You Can, by Frank Abaganle took place in New Rochelle, in the 1960s.Frank Abagnale Jr., a kid in high school, looks up to his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account. While in Manhattan he hopes to regain his dad's losses and try and get his parents back together. While trying to make it on his own he learns how to write bad checks and he becomes really good at it. Just a few years later, the FBI tracks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. He met a lot of women, which were his passion, and he just had the time of his life. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been followed by an FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. Carl is tyring his hardest to catch Frank but everything he does to get close just doesn't ever work and Frank always slips right past him. This really gets Carl heated and he still tries even harder to find him.
During all of this chaos Frank meets this pretty nurse that is young and comes from a wealthy family. He met her when he was posing as a doctor. When frank fell in love with her she brings him home to meet the parents. Frank then asks her dad if he can marry her. They were then going to get married when Carl Hanratty had just found out where he was. Carl and a ton of FBI agents swarmed the house and interrupted a huge engagement party. Frank got away and left his fiance without understanding what was going on. Frank was later caught and put in prison for fraud.
Frank was an amazing con artist and was extremly smart and good at what he did. He did not inherit the gene of becoming a a criminal because no one in his family wasa criminal. He picked up on it on his own and practiced it a lot and thats what made him a master at it. Frank posed as other people and wrote a lot of bad checks. How they didn't catch him instantly blows my mind. What i really liked about this book is that it is a true story. Frank was practically a genius at a young age and was able to outsmart many FBI agents who were many years older than him. Like other criminals he started committing crimes at a young age. Also i beliee one of the reasons he took money was the fact that when he grew up he was poor and didnt have a lot. Also it is a fact that poorer people are more suceptible to crime. All around i really enjoyed reading this book because it helped me figure out some more things about criminals.
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