Martin Frankel, a disgraced securities trader, sought refuge overseas only to be tracked down in one of the most twisted international dramas of all time.In Thief, investigative reporter J. A. Johnson, Jr. recreates the intricate trail of misdeeds.Johnson takes the reader on a wild journey, chronicling Frankel's early years as an intelligent, nerdy youth, up through his ignominious career as a securities trader, and concluding with his villainous transformation into an insurance scam artist who used the personal ads to lure unwitting victims into his sadomasochistic universe.By twists and turns, J. A. Johnson, Jr., exposes Frankel's disturbing world of high finance, wild sex, and deadly greed. He goes behind the guarded walls of Frankel's palatial Greenwich estate to reveal the inner workings of one man's criminal empire - a fiefdom of fraud where one man sought to create an insurance empire with laundered money and embezzled funds. Read Less