num_pages: 272
description: The year is 1963, the setting small-town Michigan. Pete Fenton is just another well-mannered math student until he meets Jackie Barron, a teenage grifter who introduces him to the carnival underworld -- and lures him with the cons, the double-dealing, and, most of all, the easy money. The memoir of a shy middle-class kid turned first-class huckster, Eyeing the Flash is highly unorthodox, and utterly compelling.
language: English
title: Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist
titlecomplete: Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist
genres: True Crime, Crime, History, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Americana, Coming Of Age, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 183
publisher: Simon & Schuster