Flim Flam: Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists

by Mark Bourrie

Book Overview

Flim Flam explores the world of Canadian white-collar crime, a place inhabited by hustlers, wild gamblers, and crazy dreamers. It takes the reader to the Vancouver Stock Exchange, where dream salesmen have peddled wild stories of easy money, through the "moose pasture" scams of northern Canada, to the con artists who have been drawn to Toronto's financial district. Along the way, you'll meet crooked politicians, a young con man who confessed to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888822014
• ISBN13: 9780888822017
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"