Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to trick their iron-fisted captors. To stave off boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate seances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around, and one day an Ottoman official approaches him with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board—and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception—to build a trap for their captors that will ultimately lead them to freedom. he Confidence Men is the story of one of the only known con games played for a good cause—and of a profound, unlikely friendship. Had it not been for the "Great War," Jones, the Oxford-educated son of a British lord, and Hill, a mechanic on an Australian sheep ranch, would never have met. But in pain, loneliness, hunger, and isolation, they formed a powerful emotional and intellectual alliance that saved both of their lives.