Goodreads asked David Howard:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

David Howard My first book, Lost Rights, about a stolen artifact, included an FBI sting, which put me in touch with some people connected to the bureau. One of them sent me an email address for Myron Fuller, whose undercover work had helped start the Abscam investigation in the late 1970s. Myron and I talked on the phone a couple of times, then we met in New York in 2014. He told riveting stories, and it seemed like there might be a book in them somewhere, but I wasn’t sure where it was all going. The tale was quite sprawling, and parts had already been incorporated into the movie “American Hustle.” But then at one point he said, “You know, it all started with two young agents out in Indiana who spent a year traveling with a con man.”

I stopped him and said, “Wait. Say that again.” I cringe a little saying this, but the instant those words came out of his mouth, I knew that that was my book. The more I dug, the more enamored I became.

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