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Summary: great fantasy
Review: If you think it's going to help you in the real world, don't buy it. Great reading but don't run out and hire a private investigator to find your ex's money with his techniques...it just won't happen! This is purely Ian Flemming stuff. Fiction, "undercover" of reality. I wonder what he was on when when he wrote this hyper fantasy!
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Summary: Extremely informative and entertaining on a rare subject.
Review: Informative and entertaining
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Summary: A what-to book, not a how-to book
Review: It is important to understand the the subject discussed covers so many aspects that it is impossible to cover all in detail in anything less than an encyclopedia. The author attempts to tell the reader several times that this is book is a door-opener to the subject, not a comprehensive effort. Every single individual will have different requirements for disappearing to be successful. Armed with the information this book contains anyone should be prepared to take further steps which often involve many actions including attorneys and visiting the potential country or state destination.
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Summary: Far from a crook
Review: It is the individual's constitutional right, if not his responsibility, to do what ever he peaceably can to cut off funding to a government run amuck. Pankau provides the information people need to prevent the government from looting the wealth they worked a life time to create.
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Summary: Three can keep a secret if two are Catholic priests, maybe.
Review: It is tribute to Ed Pankau's genius that his book was out of date before it went to press. The sharp teeth of the machine built to catch you in its gears is ever refining itself, daily and hourly. An example might be new regulations requiring foreign air carriers to demand passengers bearing US passports fill out forms indicating name, address, destination, etc. Not only do they track you coming, now they want to know where you are going before you get there! Pankau's book is something of a breath of fresh air for the human spirit, which seeks freedom and not slavery. It is full of fairly good advice and beautifully rendered, concise anecdotes illustrating lessons learned the hard way. Pankau carries on a fine tradition called humanity, while most of the world is angaged in buidling a better mousetrap from which the builders will not be able to escape. I suggest you buy this book, or rent it, or steal it. As the book will tell you, have an escape plan for when the cops come knocking on the front door. If you don't, you may end up with an excess of reading time in a motel designed by cubists.
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Summary: enticing
Review: It was a come-on, but in real life a flop. Sounded good in theory but when I hired the author to investigate a real subject, what he purported in his book wasn't done. I wonder if any of it is true or if it is only in the authors' James-Bond imagination. I tested the authors' assertions in a real life situation WITH HIM AS THE INVESTIGATOR. Not only did his "investigation" produce nothing, he was unable to justify WHY he was unable to produce any information, and which, if any, of the many techniques he espoused in his book, he used. His book makes for scintillating, make- believe reading but don't buy it if you think it has anything to do with what any private investigator , especially the author, can do in the real world.
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Summary: It's ok & interesting & I'm glad I read it ,_ But I already
Review: knew a better & easier way
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Summary: For What it's Worth
Review: Pankau's book presents an overview on the subject of asset protection. It's not his mission to tell you every detail of how something is done. That's up to you to figure out. Overall it's a fun read and informative. The Offshore centers he discussed have changed over the years but the facts stand. You CAN protect your assets offshore IF you know how. It's not that difficult. Why so many readers seem to have it in for Mr. Pankau I can only guess. Perhaps it was his appearances on the Art Bell radio show or his confidence in himself as a private investigator. I don't know. But I do know his book is a decent introduction for those seeking answers. It will certainly start you thinking and doing some of your own investigation into the subject of asset protection. Read it and enjoy!
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Summary: The importance of individual rights
Review: Perhaps the least known protections of my rights as an individual are in the New Hampshire State Constitution: here there is not only an absolute "Right of Conscience" (New York waffles a bit) but not only the right, but the obligation to resist oppression! As far as I can tell, every State has its own Consitution (Texas' should be really interesting reading!) and many go further in rights' protection than does the US Constitution, which required a greater consenus to pass. They were some folk, America's Revolutionaries. We are letting them down if we allow our true liberty to be nibbled away by bureaucrats. My most important assets are my time and energy: money can always be replaced (and having no money is actually often better than having a little: among other things, the courts will waive all fees, including service of papers by deputies since justice is supposed to be free!) Happy Hunting!
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Summary: Takes a crook to write about one
Review: Skip this book - please. It was written by the biggest fraud alive today. Mr. Pankau was "removed" as a director from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners when it is determined (and confimred) that he lied on his credentials about his service in Vietnam and employment with the IRS. This book is an obvious attempt to lash out at those individuals, organizations and government agencies that have worked to expose his shenninigans. The book reads like a self-serving ego booster to validate his own ego.
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