By Walter Kirn. "Kirn's one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley" -- specifically, the con artist/murderer dba Clark Rockefeller -- "takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles."
Heavy-hitter blurbs from Ellroy, Oates, and Mary Karr on the back of this hardcover; the jacket has some rubbing and faint storage-wear, but the book overall is in great shape...except for that handful of pages where it looks like it got dragged through a flowerbed (see pics). A fine reading copy, however.