October Bonus Book Review: King Con
[published on Patreon 11/1/19]
The crime
From the book jacket: "Edgar Laplante was a small-time grifter, virtuoso singer, and handsome young charmer. ... In the fall of 1917, he reinvented himself as Chief White Elk: a buck-skinned, feathered-headdressed war hero, sports star, civil rights campaigner, leader of the Cherokee nation -- and total fraud." Thi…