"Kurzweil does the delightfully unexpected: He morphs his story from a poignant memoir into a true-crime thriller." -- NPR.org "Whipping Boy is like nothing I've ever read, an investigative memoir that's honest, funny, sad, and edge-of-the-chair suspenseful. I loved it." -- Dan Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition "Whipping Boy reads like a European version of American Hustle...Full of intrigue and suspense, the story follows the bizarre twists and turns of one man's journey to find and confront his childhood tormentor-ready-made for a film treatment." -- Kirkus Reviews "Whipping Boy is much more than the search for a bully. Kurzweil takes readers on a suspenseful and thrilling ride." -- Bookish "Pleasure-packed...makes the wily con artists in American Hustle look stuffy by comparison." -- Details "A fascinating, multi-pronged morality tale about victimhood, skewed perception and the liberation of facing your demons." -- Washington Post "A captivating hybrid of investigative journalism and memoir...Kurzweil is not simply settling a private score; he's standing up for anyone who has ever been bullied." -- Chicago Tribune "A memoir that reads like a thriller as the author circles the globe to find the man who made his boarding school days a living hell." -- Tampa Bay Times "Kurzweil crafts an entertaining, sharply reported picaresque centering on the colorful leaders of the scam, who bamboozled their marks by posing as monocled European aristocrats and produced a fake deed from the fictional King of Mombessa... A crime saga that's ripe with hilarious humbuggery." -- Publishers Weekly "This meditation on pain and memory...only sounds like fiction." -- Library Journal "I enjoyed Whipping Boy on so many levels. It's wonderfully conceived and wonderfully executed." -- Ricky Jay, author of Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers