Cons by Pros: A detective's casebook of white collar crime.

He's a private detective with world-wide contacts. . One of America's most successful private investigators, Armand Grant has been chasing criminals for decades - and now, he tells the amazing, alarming truth: Brazen con men are stealing billions from business, ripping off Americans, even resorting to murder--and mostly getting away with it. The movie "Ladies Night" is based on a chapter in this book. Grant's an ex-Marine who's handy with his fists and packs a .38. But his real assets are brains, guts, and experience - and razor-sharp instincts! Armand Grant walks a legal and ethical tightrope between his clients, the police and the truth. From midnight stake-outs to dazzlingly complex schemes, Armand Grant tracks them down--the thieves who rob us blind! Two appendixes show where to find almost any kind of public information (property records, births and deaths, corporate ownership, etc.These alone are more than worth the price of the whole book.