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The Art of Making Money: The Story of A Master Counterfeiter
by Kersten, Jason
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1592404464
- ISBN 13
- 9781592404469
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
NY: Gotham Books, 2009. Textblock is very clean and tight; binding and dust jacket lightly edge worn and rubbed; 292p.. First Edition/First Printing. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover.
Synopsis
The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who “made” millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn’t buy him: family.Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago’s worst housing projects. He took to crime almost immediately, starting with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers. Eventually a man nicknamed “DaVinci” taught him the centuries-old art of counterfeiting. After a stint in jail, Williams emerged to discover that the Treasury Department had issued the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever created: the 1996 New Note. Williams spent months trying to defeat various security features before arriving at a bill so perfect that even law enforcement had difficulty distinguishing it from the real thing. Williams went on to print millions in counterfeit bills, selling them to criminal organizations and using them to fund cross-country spending sprees. Still unsatisfied, he went off in search of his long-lost father, setting in motion a chain of betrayals that would be his undoing.In The Art of Making Money, journalist Jason Kersten details how Williams painstakingly defeated the anti-forging features of the New Note, how Williams and his partner-in-crime wife converted fake bills into legitimate tender at shopping malls all over America, and how they stayed one step ahead of the Secret Service until trusting the wrong person brought them all down. A compulsively readable story of how having it all is never enough, The Art of Making Money is a stirring portrait of the rise and inevitable fall of a modern-day criminal mastermind.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EW1745
- Title
- The Art of Making Money: The Story of A Master Counterfeiter
- Author
- Kersten, Jason
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1592404464
- ISBN 13
- 9781592404469
- Publisher
- Gotham Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Money, American Currency, Counterfeiting, Counterfeit Currency
- Bookseller catalogs
- Numismatics & Philately;
- Size
- 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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