''Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade'' is a 2014

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. It describes his experiences being a close friend to a man he knew as Clark Rockefeller, who claimed to be the scion of the notable Rockefeller family in the US. In reality, Clark Rockefeller was an alias and he was really

Christian Gerhartsreiter Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (born February 21, 1961) is a German convicted murderer and impostor. Born in West Germany, he is currently serving a prison sentence in the U.S. state of California. After moving to the U.S. in his late teens, Gerh ...

, a German immigrant to the United States who had been working as a con man for over 20 years, and who was soon to be convicted of murder.

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2014 non-fiction books American memoirs Boni & Liveright books {{lit-bio-book-stub