In 1916 two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, planned a daring escape from a remote Turkish PoW camp. Margalit Fox explains how, with the aid of a home-made Ouija board, they convinced their captors that their contacts in the spirit world could locate a hoard of buried treasure, then feigned madness and were transferred to an asylum in Constantinople.
Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board and holds fake seances for fellow prisoners. One day, an Ottoman official approaches him with a query: could Jones contact the spirits to find a vast treasure rumoured to be buried nearby? Jones, a lawyer, and Hill, a magician, use the Ouija board - and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception-to build a trap for their captors that will lead them to freedom.
The Confidence Men is a nonfiction thriller featuring strategy, mortal danger and even high farce - and chronicles a profound but unlikely friendship.
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