The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

"This story is so gripping and so extraordinary, I had to keep double-checking to see if it was true. It is. During World War I, two British officers imprisoned in a remote Turkish camp conned their way to freedom using – wait for it – a Ouija board. Margalit Fox weaves in bits of history about the long con, spiritualism, telepathy and the treatment of people experiencing with mental illness. But it’s the plot that rivets (and sometimes makes you laugh out loud)."