Son Of A Grifter. The Twisted Tale Of Sante And Kenny Kimes, The Most Notorious Con Artists In America

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: William Morrow
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 405 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In 1998 a troubled young man and his flamboyant mother were arrested for murdering a wealthy widow in her New York City mansion. Suddenly, America was transfixed by a pair of real-life film noir characters, an Oedipal team of scam artists who left a trail of blood, lies, and larceny from coast to coast. The media couldnt get enough of the twisted relationship between Sante Kimes and her twenty-three-year-old son Kenny.But the most chilling story of all was never told - until now. Kent Walker, Santes elder son, reveals how he survived forty years of "the Dragon Ladys" very special brand of motherly love and still managed to get away.As a child Kent watched his mother destroy his hardworking father, Ed Walker, and then - with Kents painful collusion - snare what Sante called "my millionaire." When she married seemingly respectable real-estate developer Ken Kimes, it was a match made in hell.For the next two decades Kents mother and stepfather indulged in a globetrotting orgy of criminal behavior, laying waste to each other and anyone who got in the way. Kent, their would-be recruit, was privy to the family business - torching houses, defrauding friends, crashing White House parties, "shopping" for trunkloads of fur coats - and Santes self-serving style of adultery. When Kents half-brother, Kenny was born, Kent was twelve years old - old enough to know that he was his younger siblings only protector. Kent tried desperately to save Kenny from his mothers sinister bidding. His failure haunts him to this day.

ISBN: 9780060188658