Blood Will Out: The True Story Of A Murder, A Mystery, And A Masquerade
by Walter Kirn
Buy on AmazonBlood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade is a 2014 memoir by Walter Kirn. It describes his experiences being a close friend to a man he knew as Clark Rockefeller, who claimed to be the scion of the notable Rockefeller family in the US. In reality, Clark Rockefeller was an alias, and he was really Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant to the United States who had been working as a con man for over 20 years, and who was soon to be convicted of murder.
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"When journalist Walter Kirn discovers that his friend of 15 years, a man he knew as Clark Rockefeller (wealthy, powerfully connected and, yes, one of the Rockefellers), is really a fraud, a sociopath and a murderer, he can’t fathom how he could have been duped so easily. Kirn’s dogged investigation into Rockefeller’s trail of deceit is the stuff of true crime thrillers, but Blood Will Out’s blunt force impact comes when Kirn reflects on his own moral failings and bravely reveals what might have caused him to get it all so wrong."
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