A review by lifepluspreston
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith

4.0

Never Saw Me Coming by Tanya Smith--Gripping and surprisingly emotional, this memoir follows a woman who scammed banks in the United States out of millions of dollars. She describes unbelievable heists and her adventures laundering that money, which as you know, is not a victimless crime. Smith is not a sympathetic figure yet tries to evoke sympathy, which is, erm, a bit annoying. I'm certainly open to the idea that disparities in race leads to bad decisions in our justice system. I'm less sympathetic to the idea that a woman who has escaped multiple times from federal prison somehow deserves much leniency. Despite this, it's a good book. Thumbs up.