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Can I read The Art of Making Money : The Story of a Master Counterfeiter on EtoBox?
The Art of Making Money : The Story of a Master Counterfeiter by Jason Kersten [Kersten, Jason] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Art of Making Money : The Story of a Master Counterfeiter about?
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 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-coun
Who reads The Art of Making Money : The Story of a Master Counterfeiter?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jason Kersten [Kersten, Jason]
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc.
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101060162
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, True Crime, Science
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (1,020 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14