Hot Plastic, by Peter Craig

It's a story about thieves. Grifters, scam artists. Identities, credit, wallets, and hearts are all stolen, traded, or used in this book. It does sort of read like a how to book, but being that it takes place in the 80's, most of the techniques are probably too old to use anyway. It was fascinating. I especially recommend it to Peter... for some reason I think you would really like it!

It doesn't look like much. It's a 300 or so page paperback. But there are so many words on each page, and the details are so important, that it took me much longer than I had anticipated to read it.