Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir by the Other Son
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072WBLMMK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 518 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The media couldn't get enough of the twisted relationship between Sante Kimes and her 23-year-old son, Kenny. When she married seemingly respectable real-estate developer Ken Kimes, it was a match made in hell. Suddenly America was transfixed by a pair of real-life film noir characters. Kent Walker, Sante's elder son, reveals how he survived 40 years of "the Dragon Lady's" very special brand of motherly love and still managed to get away. For the next two decades, Kent's mother and stepfather indulged in a globetrotting orgy of criminal behavior, laying waste to each other and anyone who got in the way. But the most chilling story of all was never told - until now. In 1988 a troubled young man and his flamboyant mother were arrested for murdering a wealthy widow in her New York City mansion. As a child Kent watched his mother destroy his hardworking father, Ed Walker, and then - with Kent's painful collusion - snare what Sante called "my millionaire". When Kent's half brother, Kenny, was born, Kent was 12 years old - old enough to know that he was his younger sibling's on
One Crazy Mama Baranabus Entertaining, shocking (in terms of her child abuse, mostly) and bizarre. Walker's life is almost like a controlled psych experiment of the effects of criminal behavior on a child. Luckily, he turned out ok but his brother didn't. The reader, like Walker, can't really understand or know how and why Kimes was so compulsively, insanely criminal. We can guess that her impoverished unstable upbringing, which is mysterious given her compulsive lying, had much to do with it. Walker also credits a neighbor for intervening a. The inside story of what it is like growing up as the son of a psycopath R. Z. Halleson For those readers who have read books about psychopaths by "experts" who study them, Kent Walker's book is a completely different take on the subject. Walker, together with investigative reporter Mark Schone, has written a memoir on what it is like to have a sociopathic parent whom he both loves and hates. He talks about how he was taught to help his mother Sante to shoplift at a very early age, later to help her with her fraudulent schemes, and finally the struggle to break away from her to try and live a decent, la. Fascinating and Unforgettable I really could not put this book down, except to keep checking online references every once in a while to reassure myself this really happenedand it did. It is absolutely incredible. Really, really something you need to read for yourself to see what humans are capable ofeven if you think you have seen or heard it all, this may prove you wrong! At the very least, I am willing to bet you won't be boredSante is really the kind of person they have in mind when they say truth is stranger than fiction. Btw, I read this boo