The True Life Story of a Con Artist, Carny, and Identity Thief. My entire life has been one big lie. Actually thousands of them all mixed up with just enough truth that sometimes even I can't tell the difference

anymore, which is probably why no one else can either.

I didn't set out in life to become a liar, con artist, hustler, or identity thief, who would? But that’s exactly what I've been, ever since I stole my first identity, wrote my first bad check, and ran my first con, over thirty years ago and long before they invented the catchy and now familiar label "Identity Thief"

I stole my first identity after running away from a boy’s home at the age of fourteen, and joined the United States Army. Since then I've also been in the U.S. Navy, a cook, bartender, cab driver, truck driver, sales clerk, store detective, hotel detective, construction worker, electrician, foundry worker, telemarketer, hospital orderly, maintenance technician, cable TV installer, delivery man, ranch hand, disc jockey, bouncer,