The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

During this time he also sustained a defining scar on the left side of his face from the jealous boyfriend of a woman he consorted with.Upon leaving school, Lustig applied both his quick wit and sizing up of a situation and his fluency in several languages to embark on a life of crime, eventually focusing on conducting a variety of scams and cons that provided him with property and money, and which transformed him into a professional cons man