num_pages: 280
description: When it was over there were a lot of questions. The detectives were embarrassed but they still wanted answered How did a 15-year-old runaway successfully pose as a world traveled countess? The newspapers turned it back on them practically sneering How did she do it while under investigation by the FBI DEA and Interpol? The Mafia had been demanding the same thing for six months What is your real name? And the psychologists asked the question they always ask Why? Its the why of it that will keep a girl in trouble. Assuming Names is the true story of a young con artist. Its the tale of a runaway that assumed the title of Countess and then went on to fool the FBI DEA and Interpolas well as a number of other celebrities and institutionswith an elaborate tale of world intrigue.A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Hello everyone. This is Tanya. You may find yourself reading my book and saying No this did not happen. You may be inclined to say it is too far-fetched and quite frankly impossible. I have provided evidence at my website that what I write is the truth. I mention it at the front of the book but it may be easy to overlook so I am reiterating here.At my website are copies of the newspaper and magazine articles mentioned in the book. The articles are from the Austin American Statesman The Dallas Morning News and Womans World Magazine. They are all nationally recognized media for news. Previous reviewers were concerned I may have gone to Photoshop to create them and while my book does paint me as the sort that would do such a thing the reality is that those media institutions would sue me into submission before the cache could be cleared. In the end you may not believe me but you can surely believe what the papers wrote.
language: English
title: Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
publisher: Thompson Books