![“Handsome Devil” March, 2016. [A KINDLE SINGLE] Commissioned by Amazon, this best-selling Kindle Single tells the unbelievable true story of “Count” Victor Lustig, America’s most notorious con-man. Also, see an extract at the Smithsonian.](http://41.media.tumblr.com/9ff17db7f13722c8e0de3b316e130acb/tumblr_o4pgg3gaWj1qib8tmo1_r1_1280.jpg)
“Handsome Devil”
March, 2016. [A KINDLE SINGLE]
Commissioned by Amazon, this best-selling Kindle Single tells the unbelievable true story of “Count” Victor Lustig, America’s most notorious con-man. Also, see an extract at the Smithsonian.
Jeff began his career at British men’s magazine Loaded, winning several magazine industry awards. He moved to America in 2010 as a freelance foreign correspondent, covering American crime. He reported from the Colorado theater shooting, and the tragic Newtown school massacre. On lighter assignments he covered the Miss America beauty pageant for Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, and interviewed teenage exorcists in Arizona.
His profile of Steve Davies, a mythical soccer fan who scored a goal for West Ham United, was listed in Best American Sports Writing 2014 and voted ‘the best soccer story of all time’ by readers of Longform.org and EA Sports. Paramount Pictures are developing a movie based on Jeff’s Atlantic story ‘The Wedding Sting’, about a fake wedding thrown by undercover Michigan cops.
Jeff lives in Los Angeles with his wife, and a cat they adopted from a bikini factory.
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![“The Murder House” October, 2015. [MEDIUM] A mysterious mansion hidden in the hills of Los Angeles remains frozen in time since a grim murder-suicide on December 6, 1959. This is the true story of 2475 Glendower Place. [Film news]](http://41.media.tumblr.com/549ed9ebe23faaa295d2ca22f5dd0bd7/tumblr_nw4o9ovHr21qib8tmo1_1280.jpg)
“The Murder House”
October, 2015. [MEDIUM]
A mysterious mansion hidden in the hills of Los Angeles remains frozen in time since a grim murder-suicide on December 6, 1959. This is the true story of 2475 Glendower Place. [Film news]
![“The Wedding Sting”May 2015, [THE ATLANTIC] How a police department tried to save a failing Rust Belt town by luring all the local drug dealers to one party. [Film news 1, 2, 3]](http://40.media.tumblr.com/030b162745816bafc6675767c9afeaf3/tumblr_noeucnIaT61qib8tmo1_r1_1280.png)
“The Wedding Sting”
May 2015, [THE ATLANTIC]
How a police department tried to save a failing Rust Belt town by luring all the local drug dealers to one party. [Film news 1, 2, 3]
![“The Pez Outlaw” March, 2015. [PLAYBOY] [PDF]How a Michigan farmer made $4million smuggling rare Pez dispensers into the U.S – until the Pez corporation’s ‘Pezident’ candy-crushed his empire.](http://40.media.tumblr.com/5f21609a3fa6ebea30c0faf1cafe8688/tumblr_nlhxsrZUVd1qib8tmo1_r2_1280.jpg)
“The Pez Outlaw”
March, 2015. [PLAYBOY] [PDF]
How a Michigan farmer made $4million smuggling rare Pez dispensers into the U.S – until the Pez corporation’s ‘Pezident’ candy-crushed his empire.
![“The Rise and Fall of the Bombshell Bandit”April, 2015. [BBC News Magazine]How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.](http://41.media.tumblr.com/cd5e2c15862501f9cc2423c54a84f877/tumblr_nnqps2bYmm1qib8tmo1_r1_1280.jpg)
“The Rise and Fall of the Bombshell Bandit”
April, 2015. [BBC News Magazine]
How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.
![“The Code” January, 2015. [THE VERGE]A Declassified Hostage Rescue Story. How The Colombian Army Sent A Hidden Message To Hostages… Using A Pop Song.](http://41.media.tumblr.com/00d69b783f7eef5fac4f4428f08cc3a9/tumblr_nhvs70L5f31qib8tmo1_r3_1280.jpg)
“The Code”
January, 2015. [THE VERGE]
A Declassified Hostage Rescue Story. How The Colombian Army Sent A Hidden Message To Hostages… Using A Pop Song.
![1970s Wrestler Ann Casey’s life is the stuff of pulp dreams. She escaped poverty, broke cultural barriers, kissed Elvis, and survived an assassination attempt before winning The Belt in ‘74. [VICTORY JOURNAL]Listed as ‘notable’ in BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING 2014](http://40.media.tumblr.com/38f8541f0a2248bfe914faea15e2fc92/tumblr_ngcqirfSDw1qib8tmo1_1280.jpg)
1970s Wrestler Ann Casey’s life is the stuff of pulp dreams. She escaped poverty, broke cultural barriers, kissed Elvis, and survived an assassination attempt before winning The Belt in ‘74. [VICTORY JOURNAL]
Listed as ‘notable’ in BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING 2014
![[NARRATIVELY] The story of America’s most rock'n'roll drugs trafficker. [FILM NEWS]](http://36.media.tumblr.com/c326f89180ecc53698b445eff138a2cc/tumblr_nekxmfA7ZO1qib8tmo1_r1_1280.jpg)
The true story of Greek bank robber and legend Vassilis Paleokostas.
Read on the BBC. Listen on BBC World Service.
A long form narrative about Steve Davies, a mythical soccer fan. Read at Howler magazine or download as PDF, or at The Guardian. Listen to Steve’s story. Listed as ’best soccer story of all time,’ by readers of longform.org. Also in: ‘Best Football Writing 2013’ (USA); Dutch broadsheet NRC’s ‘Five Best Long Reads of 2013’; New Zealand Herald’s ‘Best Sporting Long Reads of 2013.’ Listed as ‘notable’ in BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING 2013
