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Thank you! Engaging and accomplished counterfeiter Art Williams had a truly rotten childhood, according to the memories he shared with the author. After considerable bad behavior, Dad skipped out, leaving the kids with certifiably crazy Reviiew. One day, his teacher was gone, and the young student, with native pluck and instinctive smarts, manfully clawed his way to the top of the counterfeiting heap. Ironically, he only got into trouble with the law after a breakup with a girlfriend led him to sell off his printing equipment, move to Texas and take up robbery. Not for the inventive and proficient Williams, who produced a creditable bogus hundred using glues, sprays, ink, paper, press, camera, scanner and laptop. He wholesaled his product at 30 cents on the dollar, but it was more exciting to pass it on road trips with family and friends. His downfall resulted from family problems, especially misplaced filial mone. Where is our hero now? An absorbed reporter grippingly relays the story of a agt trade and the troubled family relations of a talented grifter. There was a problem adding your email address.
The Art of Making Money
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Enter your mobile number or email address below and we’ll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer — no Kindle device required. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. A story about fathers and sons, filled with crime-fueled aslamminga trips, drug pirates, and obsessive desire, I couldn’t put it down. After reading this true tale of money and crime, I’ll never be able to look at a C- note the same way again. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Read Jason Kersten’s posts on the Penguin Blog. 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 s 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.
The Story of a Master Counterfeiter
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I felt guilty reading this book. There’s not much edifying about a book about a guy who counterfeits A fascinating and true! Jason Kersten. Read Jason Kersten’s posts on the Penguin Blog. 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 s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his kerstwn 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 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 fhe 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 Moneyjournalist 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.
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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Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Read Jason Kersten’s posts rsview the Penguin Blog. 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 s 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 miney Treasury Department had issued the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever book the 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. Makimg The Art of Making Moneyjournalist Jason Kersten details how Williams painstakingly defeated the makibg 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 .
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