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English Summary/英文概要： A darkly funny memoir and
investigation into the charms
and crimes of the untrustworthy
Romance scams, pyramid schemes, bogus debts
and fake news, the world is awash with confidence
tricksters and swindlers. But what happens if the
fraudster is your lover?
It has been said that trust is a risk masquerading as
a promise and, as Hemingway suggested, ‘The way to
make people trustworthy is to trust them’. Once we
have fallen under the spell of malevolent hucksters,
their power is real, as is the loss of self and hope
when the spell breaks.
A hybrid memoir and a personal detective story,
Trust is an exploration of what it means to trust, why
we trust, and what happens when trust is betrayed.
With a particular view to fraud and corruption within
the hallowed walls of sandstone universities,
Ryckmans brings to light the oft subtle, brutal nature
of the control that fraudsters have over their victims,
and shows the deep impacts their actions have on
others personally and professionally. The cover up –
sometimes said to be worse than the crime –
has insidious effects.
Trust is a fractured fable. It is darkly funny, wistful,
and spare in tone and approach.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 愛情騙局、金字塔計劃、虛假債務和假新聞，這個世界充斥著騙子和詐騙。 但如果騙子是你的情人，會發生什麼事？
有人說，信任是一種偽裝成承諾的風險，正如海明威所說，「讓人們值得信賴的方法就是信任他們」。 一旦我們被惡毒的小販迷住了，他們的力量就是真實的，當咒語被打破時，自我和希望的喪失也是如此。
一部混合回憶錄和個人的偵探故事，本書探索了信任的意義、我們為什麼信任，以及當信任被背叛時會發生什麼。 萊克曼斯特別關注砂岩大學神聖牆內的欺詐和腐敗，揭示了欺詐者對受害者的控制往往微妙而殘酷的本質，並展示了他們的行為對他人個人和職業的深刻影響。 掩蓋事實——有時被認為比犯罪更糟糕——具有潛在的影響。
本書是一個現代社會的寓言。以陰暗且樸實的語調娓娓道來。
(Zoe)
Awards/获奖情况： ★2023《雪梨先驅晨報－文學版》新書推薦
「我一口氣讀完了且愛不釋手。 真的。 它寫得很漂亮，也很巧妙。」——西蒙·溫徹斯特（Simon Winchester），《紐約時報》暢銷書《教授與狂人》的作者
「坦率而誠實……證明打破這些循環的唯一方法就是說實話。」——艾米·理查茲，獲得艾美獎的《Woman》 (Viceland) 的製片人和《We Are Makers》的作者。
「生動透明。 俐落。 我從第一段就完全被迷住了。」——喬安娜·班傑明教授(Professor Joanna Benjamin)，倫敦經濟學院名譽法學教授
「一個愛爾蘭版的雷普利愚弄了中央銀行、精英大學、大公司和許多商業領袖的非凡故事本身就令人著迷和震驚，但他也用誘人的邀請、奢侈的的禮物和葉慈的鞭笞迷惑眾多聰明且世故的女性，但就如同珍妮·萊克曼斯 (Jeanne Ryckmans) 巧妙的描寫，當他對她施暴時，一切都崩潰了。」 ——安妮·薩默斯，澳大利亞作家和專欄作家，著名的女權主義者之一
「一個扣人心弦、令人難以忘懷的故事講述了你無法放下的信任背叛——一個關於夢想、現實以及兩者之間經常吞沒我們所有人的巨大差距的故事。 」－－Amanda L. Tyler，與Ruth Bader Ginsburg 合著Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue.
‘I read it in one sitting and loved loved loved
it. Truly. It is beautifully and cleverly told.’
—Simon Winchester, New York Times
bestselling author of The Professor and
the Madman
‘Raw and honest … a testament that the only
way to break these cycles is to tell the truth.’
—Amy Richards, Producer of the Emmynominated
Woman (Viceland) and author
of We Are Makers.
‘Vivid and transparent. Deft. I was absolutely
hooked from the first paragraph.’
—Professor Joanna Benjamin, Emeritus
Professor of Law, The London School
of Economics
The extraordinary story of an Irish Ripley, a fraudster
and conman who fooled central banks, elite universities,
major companies and scores of individual
business leaders is in itself captivating and astounding,
but he also plied a series of smart sophisticated
women with seductive invitations, extravagant gifts
and lashings of Yeats and, as Jeanne Ryckmans so
deftly reconstructs, it all fell apart when he got violent
with her.
--Anne Summers, Australian writer and columnist, best known as a leading feminist
A gripping and haunting account of trust betrayed
that you won’t be able to put down – a story of dreams,
reality, and the wide gap between the two that too
often engulfs us all.
－－Amanda L. Tyler, co-author with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
on Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue.
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