Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. There’s just something about the dog days of summer that calls for settling in and enjoying a good . . . con artist story. The Texas Book Club’s next read fits the bill. It hasn’t been on shelves long, but Pamela Colloff’s Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast is already a New York Times bestseller. Published on July 14, Catch the Devil tells the story of Paul Skalnik, who at various points passed as an oilman, a terminal cancer patient, an undercover agent, a fighter pilot, and a lawyer. He played the parts all while embezzling money, forging…
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