Faking It: How Society Posers Climb Their Way to the Top—And Sometimes Disappear

In every city in the world there are those that have a genuine pedigree and those that are fronting a bogus image: bonafide fakers. Most provide an innocent level of subterfuge, but in larger-than-life New York City, fakers often double down until it catches up with them. Rather than being outed, they often vanish, never to be seen again.