Confidence Men
How two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history
- author
- Margalit Fox
- Narrator
- Clare Francis
- Length
- 9 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher
- Calibre Audio
- Catalogue #
- 17390
- Categories
- War - WW1
- Ratings
- 0 star rating
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 séances 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.