USING FORGERIES and bogus identities, Matthew B. Cox—one of the most ingenious con men in history—bilked America’s biggest banks out of millions. Despite numerous encounters with bank security, state and federal authorities, Cox narrowly, and quite luckily, avoided capture for years. Eventually, he topped the U.S. Secret Service’s most wanted list, and led the U.S. Marshals, FBI, and the Secret Service on a three year chase, while jet-setting around the world with his attractive female accomplices.Cox has been declared “one of the most prolific mortgage fraud con artists of all time,” by CNBC’s American Greed. Bloomberg Businessweek called him “the mortgage industry’s worst nightmare,” while Dateline NBC described Cox as “a gifted forger and silver tongued liar.” Playboy magazine proclaimed, “His scam was real estate fraud, and he was the best.”Shark in the Housing Pool is Cox’s exhilarating, first-person account, of his stranger-than-fiction story.