The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Paperback Published on: 02/06/2022
£9.99
Synopsis
Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces.
To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board and holds fake seances for fellow prisoners. One day, an Ottoman official approaches him with a query: could Jones contact the spirits to find a vast treasure rumoured to be buried nearby?
Jones, a lawyer, and Hill, a magician, use the Ouija board - and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception-to build a trap for their captors that will lead them to freedom.
The Confidence Men is a nonfiction thriller featuring strategy, mortal danger and even high farce - and chronicles a profound but unlikely friendship.
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9781788162722
- Number of pages: 352
- Weight: 273g
- Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 30 mm