You can fool most of the people most of the time ...

This is an absolutely fascinating account of the life of Frédéric Bourdin, a person who spent years impersonating teenagers, including some missing children. The story makes better reading than most novels and the fact that its all true makes it all the more extraordinary. What's disturbing is how many people he managed to fool and how easily. I was blown away by how, at least one family, accepted him as their son, despite the wrong hair color and eye color. The author makes pretty damning insinuations that there may have been even murkier motives (read murder) for some of his family's acceptance of him, but it would still not explain how he convinced the other siblings and friends.