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Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Counterfeiters are Hijacking the Global Economy

19 reviews

Anchor, 2006

Any college-level holding strong in international studies, from business to social issues, must have this.
Unlawful commerce is changing world economies, influencing international politics, and even undermining some of the foundations of society: this is the argument of ILLICIT: HOW SMUGGLERS, TRAFFICKERS, ARE HIJACKING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. It's an essential discussion for modern times, surveying the links between seemingly-small illicit users around the world and how globalization is affected by their ...

Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew survived the Holocaust (General Military)

3 reviews
Moritz Nachtstern

Osprey Publishing, 2008

The surreal parallel universe in Sachsenhausen
Moritz Nachstern was the only member of his family left in Norway when he was arrested and held in prison camps first in Norway (Berg) and then deported on the D/S Donau to Stettin and then to Auschwitz. One of only a few to survive initial selection, his background in typography gave him an opportunity to live by contributing to the Third Reich's ambitious currency counterfeiting scheme, housed ...

The Counterfeiters: A Novel

13 reviews
Andre Gide

Vintage, 1973

good read
This is not a plot-oriented story, so if you are looking for "what happens next", you will be disappointed, even though there is enough happening. For example, in the beginning, the affair of Vincent and Laura is in the foreground, but then half way through, after Laura goes back to her husband, it's almost forgotten and Vincent is out of the picture, and the reader is not going to be informed ...

Counterfeiter: The Story of A British Master Forger
Charles Black, Michael Horsnell

New English Library Ltd, 1990

This is the story of Charles Black, a banknote counterfeiter, in which he reveals how he learnt his skills, and how the money was "laundered". At his trial in 1979, the police described his work as "the best ever produced". After serving two gaol sentences, he finally went straight - to run a pet shop and a Thai bride marriage agency. His story is full of Cockney humour and insight into the criminal world.

Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply

16 reviews
Katherine Eban

Harcourt, 2005

MUST READ THIS BOOK,
As a Professional working in the Pharmaceutical business and living in the State of Florida, I can identify very well with the contents of this book.A great deal of bureaucratic barriers are set causing obstacles to efficiently operate our Pharmaceuticals within State Law.The Investigators listed in this book were committed, determined, tireless and underpaid servants of the State, that worked in ...

King of the Vagabonds: The Baroque Cycle #2 (The Baroque Cycle)

8 reviews
Neal Stephenson

HarperTorch, 2006

Baroque Cycle
The Baroque Cycle is not a trilogy, trilogy meaning "a group of three novels which together form a related series, although each is complete in itself." It is eight novels published in three hardcover volumes. Thus "cycle." In an interview in 2004, Stephenson said that one reason why he named it a "cycle" was that some people would call it a trilogy when it obviously wasn't and he wanted to, ...

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States

60 reviews
Stephen Mihm

Harvard University Press, 2007

Insightful
The parallels aren't exact, but common themes run from the period between the Revolution and the Civil War to the present: trust and distrust in finance, questions about government's proper role (including issues like regulation), the nature of the free market, the house-of-cards element of our economy. In highlighting how those themes and others played out during the United States' first ...

The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)

65 reviews
Neal Stephenson

William Morrow, 2004

Epic History Made Readable
This three-volume, 9-book set is, believe it or not, a *prequel* to his previous massive effort, Cryptonomicon. In the Baroque Cycle we find the ancestors of no less than NINE characters of that modern day tale of cryptography. But the Baroque trilogy covers much more ground. The fictional characters are used to take the reader through the lives of very real historical characters. The topics ...

Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply

3 reviews
Katherine Eban

Harvest Books, 2006

A must read book!
Dangerous Doses is defintely a "must read" book. If you are on medication or have a loved one on medication you need to read about the realities of the drugs that are being prescribed.

Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders
Paul Maliszewski

New Press, 2009

For anyone who has ever lied?or been lied to?True-life tales about faking, from Clifford Irving to Stephen Glass, by an award-winning writer. Fakers are believed?and, at least for a time, celebrated?because they each promise us, screen-gazing and experience-starved, something real and authentic, a view, however fleeting, of a great thing rarely glimpsed. ?from Fakers From James Frey and his fake memories of drug-addled ...

The Life And Adventures Of David Lewis: The Robber And Counterfeiter, The Terror Of The Cumberland Valley

1 review

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006

good history of an overlooked criminal legend
The book is a reproduction of various writings about Robber Lewis (including by David Lewis himself). It really puts history into perspecive as the legends and tales of David Lewis grew to include a few pretty tall tales that now seem to be considered factual (maybe they even are????). It really takes you back to what life was like in the early 1800s and passes on some stories from a criminal ...

Longarm and the Colorado Counterfeiter (Western Action Series)

2 reviews
Tabor Evans

DH Audio, 2000

Longarm and the Colorado Counterfeiter
Longarm goes undercover to arrest a counterfeiter, living in fortress,protected by 40 hired guns. This is not a "who-done-it" Longarm, but more of a "how am I going to do it". The villian is indentified by page 6, so the book is mostly an action novel. There is less sex in this book than most Longarm novels and this makes for a little dryer reading. Only outlaws are killed, staying away ...

Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton

24 reviews
Philip Kerr

Crown, 2002

Marvelous period thriller
I borrowed this audio book from the library, assuming it without really even checking the cover was some kind of a biography of Newton. When I realized it was actually a Sherlock Holmes / Watson type detective thriller, I was initially disappointed and planned to return forthwith, since I'm not really into fiction for the time being. But, I had listened to just enough to make me curious about ...

Flag on Devil's Island: The Autobiography of One of the Great counterfeiters and Art Forgers of Modern Times

1 review
Francis Lagrange, William Murray

Doubleday, 1961

The story of Francis (Flag) LaGrange - Counterfeiter and Forger.
The story of Francis LaGrange - Counterfeiter and Forger. Francis LaGrange is an artist with a love for life and women. It is love for women that leads him into a life of easy money creating fake antiques and then forging money for the French underworld. His downfall is the theft of a triptych from a church in Rouen, France. LaGrange creates an exact replica of the triptych, replaces the ...

THE YUCATAN AFFAIR: The Work of Raoul Ch. de Thuin, Philatelic Counterfeiter
James M. Chemi

Amer. Phil. Soc., 1974

The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy (Dalkey Archive Scholarly Series)
Hugh Kenner

Dalkey Archive Press, 2005

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