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Shane McEachern Literature Mrs. Sullivan 12/3/11 Catch Me If You Can Book Review Catch Me If You Can is a story about a teenager whose name is Frank W. Abagnale. It is an amazing story of a master con artist and check forger. When Frank was only a teenager he posed as a Pan Am co-pilot and got free flights to anywhere in the world. His disguise of being a Pan Am co-pilot allowed him to easily pass a great number fake checks. By the time he was caught he had collected at least two million dollars in counterfeited money. Frank also worked in many other jobs that would've required years of training and high intelligence to perform well, Frank being a teenager at the time, performed them easily. One job he pretended to have was being a Doctor. He signed up to be a doctor at a hospital but let the interns do most of the work, saying that they need the experience so he barely had to know anything about medicine. When he came across a medical word that he did not understand he would go to a closet and look into a pocket medical dictionary to study and learn the word. He eventually got called on to save a newborn from suffocating to death but did not know what to do, after this incident he decided to stop the impersonation in fear of killing someone. He was eventually caught in Montpelier, France where he spent six months in perpignon prison. He was treated very badly in this prison where he could not stand up strait in his cell and had no running water or sunlight. He was then transferred to a Swedish prison where he was treated better and stayed for another six months. He finally went back to the United states when a judge deported him from Sweden. While on the plane Frank escaped once again through the planes toilet hatch after the plane had landed and was on the runway. Franks schemes and cons are dangerous but also down right brilliant for a teenager. The book is very good at describing these events in great detail and makes you feel like you are the brilliant Frank Abagnale trying to evade FBI agents every where you go. The book does end abruptly though, leaving you with Frank being caught by the FBI and serving 4 years in prison. I would recommend this book to people of all ages and backgrounds, as it conforms to every ones dreams of being a expert con artist while also making easy money.