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Carregando... The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiterde Jason Kersten
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Art Williams' story is a thrilling one. The book takes the reader through Art's life in the Bridgeport projects of Chicago to Alaska, where his estranged father lives. The book glorifies Williams, ignoring many of the moral quandaries presented by his crimes. Still, it's a fun read, and the counterfeiting techniques Art used are detailed and fascinating. As a fan of literary fiction, I don't often read books that might fall into the 'true crime' genre, first because they are often not well written, and second because... ok, I confess, they can be addicting! In this case the book is both well-written and addicting. It tells the story of a boy (Art) in Chicago, both academically gifted yet tough, who while growing up in gangland learns how to be a master counterfeiter. Along the way you will learn a lot: from US currency and printing technologies, the criminal code of ethics, and how to survive in the underworld . Psychological dramas are well explored: between Art and his deadbeat father; what it takes to be a passer of fake currency, and why ultimately even the smartest criminals make dumb mistakes that cause their downfall. An excellent book and a real page-turner. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Art Williams' comfortable middle-class boyhood 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, 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 arriving at a bill so perfect that even law enforcement had difficulty distinguishing it from the real thing. He 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.--From publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Anyway, all that may be enough to make the story worth reading, especially knowing it's a true story.
I didn't finish the book, but that was only because I was reading it between others, and when I tried to renew it from the library someone else had placed a hold on it. ( )