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The Less People Know about Us : A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton (2019, Hardcover)

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AN EDGAR AWARDS 2020 WINNER AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family. Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over money. This was before the age of the Internet, when identity theft became more commonplace, so authorities and banks were clueless and reluctant to help Axton's parents. Axton's family changed all of their personal information and moved to different addresses, but the identity thief followed them wherever they went. Convinced that the thief had to be someone they knew, Axton and her parents completely cut off the outside world, isolating themselves from friends and family. Axton learned not to let anyone into the house without explicit permission, and once went as far as chasing a plumber off their property with a knife. As a result, Axton spent her formative years crippled by anxiety, quarantined behind the closed curtains in her childhood home. She began starving herself at a young age in an effort to blend in--her appearance could be nothing short of perfect or she would be scolded by her mother, who had become paranoid and consumed by how others perceived the family. Years later, her parents' marriage still shaken from the theft, Axton discovered that she, too, had fallen prey to the identity thief, but by the time she realized, she was already thousands of dollars in debt and her credit was ruined. The Less People Know About Us is Axton's attempt to untangle an intricate web of lies, and to understand why and how a loved one could have inflicted such pain. Axton will present a candid, shocking, and redemptive story and reveal her courageous effort to grapple with someone close that broke the unwritten rules of love, protection, and family.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1538730286
ISBN-13
9781538730287
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038678126

Product Key Features

Book Title
Less People Know about Us : a Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
Author
Axton Betz-Hamilton
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, Organized Crime, Dysfunctional Families, Criminals & Outlaws, Criminology
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Psychology, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hv6691.B473 2019
Reviews
"Axton Betz-Hamilton's story is remarkable. One of the primarychallenges for those of us advocating for more rights and resources foridentity theft victims is their reluctance to share their experience. Betz-Hamilton writes with candor and grace about both herrelationship with her mother/perpetrator, and the long term effectvictimization has had on her life."-- Eva Casey Velasquez, president/CEO of Identity Theft Resource Center
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-011217
Dewey Decimal
364.1633092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes