How did a boy without the nineteenth be able to deceive the American Federal Investigations, the investigators of Scotlandy, and hundreds of investigators in Europe and the Middle East? How did Frank Abagnale, the most famous and the smallest American in the 1960s, seized more than four million dollars without breaking a single lock? And how he succeeded in impersonating a pilot, pediatrician, university professor and lawyer, without studying or practicing any of these professions?