Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

Barrett Whitener's flawless reading uses all the right emotions and inflections to bring this international criminal to life. Most impressive is how Whitener leaves listeners rooting for Abagnale, whether he is avoiding arrest or escaping from an airplane or prison. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.

"Although Abagnale is egotistical and unrepentant, he actually comes across as likeable. He's abetted in this by Whitener, who has a pleasing guy-next-door kind of voice and delivery."

"Frank Abagnale [is] a maestro of the flim-flam trade...The book's ultimate rush is how complicit Abagnale makes you in his sin. You're rooting for a man who would no sooner look at you than see your face as a giant lollipop with the word 'sucker' printed on it. And why not? After all, these days, a criminal this good is hard to find."

"If there were a forgery hall of fame, Frank Abagnale would have his own wing."

Irresistable!...touches that current of larceny that lies within all of us.

"[A] racy and rollicking read."

[An] extraordinarily informative (and strangely exhilarating) memoir.

Whatever the reader may think of his crimes, the reader will wind up chortling with and cheering along the criminal.

"A book that captivates from the first page to the last."

"Whitener superbly captures the self-serving con artist who never shows contrition for his acts."