About Borrowed Lives: The True Story of America’s Most Audacious Con Artist by Mostafa Khattou
For forty years, Fred Brito fooled everyone. This high school dropout became a pilot, priest, psychiatrist, lawyer, and orchestra conductor—all without a single qualification. Operating across America, he waltzed into executive boardrooms, performed marriages as Father Federico, and even conducted symphonies. His secret? Absolute confidence and a psychological obsession with becoming anyone but himself. Based on court documents and FBI files, this true crime biography explores how one man’s addiction to false identities created the most audacious fraud spree in American history. FREE on Amazon August 26-27!
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Author Bio:
Mostafa Khattou is a freelance translator and interpreter working with English, French, and Arabic. Based in Montpellier, France, he holds an MA in Applied Languages and has always been fascinated by unusual true stories and unexpected patterns in human behavior. When not helping others bridge language barriers, Mostafa researches bizarre historical cases and unbelievable cons. His discovery of Fred Brito's forty-year deception led him down a rabbit hole of court documents that became this book.
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