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20 PLUME the man in the Rockefeller suit the astonishing Rise and spectacular fall of a serial imposter mark seal This edition features extensive new material updating the story with latebreaking trial news J u n e • P l u m e ■■ A New York Times bestseller ■■ A Newsweek, GMA, Parade, NPR, and O, The Oprah Magazine Summer Must-Read title 978-0-452-29803-3 • U.S. $16.00 / $17.00 CAN. Biography / True Crime 5 5/16” x 8” • 336 pages 16-page b/w photo insert Rights: W00 Pub History: Viking HC, 978-0-670-02274-8 Also available as an e-book On Sale: 5/29/12 Unabridged Digital Audiobook 10.5 Hours ISBN: 978-1-10-148351-0 Price: U.S. $39.95 / $46.00 CAN. ■■12-Copy Floor Display, 978-0-142-42278-6, U.S. $192.00 / $204.00 CAN. ■■National Publicity ■■Online Reviews and Features ■■Reading Group Guide Online ■■www.mark-seal.com ■■Twitter: @MarkPSeal mark seal is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where his piece on Gerhartsreiter was a finalist for a 2010 national magazine award. He is also the author of Wildflower. He lives in aspen, colorado. Photo © Mark Schafer
“Forget fiction. Pop this jaw-dropper in your beach bag.” —USA Today True crime doesn’t get any better than this: In 2008, Clark Rockefeller, wealthy scion of a great American family, made headlines when he kidnapped his own daughter and vanished. The police and FBI were baffled. Tips poured in, but every lead was a dead end . . . because “Clark Rockefeller” did not exist. In a gripping work of investigative journalism, Mark Seal reveals how German native Christian Gerhartsreiter came to the United States, where he assumed a parade of personas, eventually posing as a Rockefeller for twelve years, married to a woman who had no idea of his true identity. Fast-paced and grippingly told, The Man in the Rockefeller Suit is The Talented Mr. Ripley come compellingly to life. “A brisk narrative that has all the pace and drive of a suspense novel.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Riveting.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “No mystery writer would script this—it’s too unbelievable.” —The Christian Science Monitor “[An] impeccably reported and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times “Irresistibly lucid and propulsive . . . Impossible to put down—Patricia Highsmith couldn’t have written a more compelling thriller.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Fascinating.” —People (four stars) “In striking detail . . . [Seal] unravels the complex and fantastically bizarre tale of a man aspiring to the American Dream by any means necessary.” —NPR When the fingerprints came back from the lab, one thing was finally clear: the kidnapper was definitely not a Rockefeller. He was Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a forty-seven-year-old German immigrant who had come to America as a student in 1978. Shortly after his arrival, he disappeared into what the Boston district attorney would call “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career.” The elaborate, labyrinthine nature of Gerhartsreiter’s shapeshifting adventures, from the time he set foot in this country as a seventeen-year-old student right up to his disappearance, makes his story more bizarre than any gifted writer of fiction could possibly invent. suGGesteD oRDeR J u n e • P l u m e 21 PLUME
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