The Case of the Counterfeit Cash

The Case of the Counterfeit Cash
Author: Angela Elwell Hunt
Publisher: Tommy Nelson
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005-08-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781400307678

Nicki is plunged into another mystery when she accidentally takes the wrong suitcase from the airport and finds it filled with bundles of hundred dollar bills.

The Art of Making Money

The Art of Making Money
Author: Jason Kersten
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009-06-11
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1101060166

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-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. Watch a Video

Given Time

Given Time
Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1992-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226143132

Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt. Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as well as essays by Benveniste and Levi-Strauss that assume Mauss's legacy. It is, however, a short tale by Baudelaire, "Counterfeit Money," that guides Derrida's analyses throughout. At stake in his reading of the tale, to which the second half of this book is devoted, are the conditions of gift and forgiveness as essentially bound up with the movement of dissemination, a concept that Derrida has been working out for many years. For both readers of Baudelaire and students of literary theory, this work will prove indispensable.

Author: George Anthony Coriaty
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2011-12
Genre:
ISBN: 1467869902

Creative author, George Anthony Coriaty's, exciting new adventure will catapult you on a thrill-packed ride through twists and turns at the most unexpected places. This wild and gripping odyssey will take you face-to-face with the most intelligent and hateful terrorists in the world! It will propel your mind's eye to dangerous places and spark your imagination. Plunge into the middle of dark and deadly places, and find yourself pitted against malevolent entities that lurk in the shadows! Colonel Tony Collins of Army Military Intelligence evolved into a NSA powerhouse and became well known and respected in the international intelligence community. The Cryptography System that he developed is now legendary in combating terrorism and crushing crime, and has been adopted by all of the American Intelligence agencies. His awesome and uncanny ability to decrypt the most sophisticated communications of al Qaeda and the top Russian criminal mastermind, has damaged the fabric of their dangerous and powerful organizations. Tony's strategies have been responsible for derailing their nefarious plans! The NSA has just received photos of a man who had been training al Qaeda insurgents to build Improvised Explosive Devices to kill American troops. No outsiders knew what this elusive killer looked like, he kept his face hidden from view! A Mossad agent paid for these photos with his life. Much to Tony's amazement, he is a striking mirror image to this high-ranking leader of al Qaeda! As a result of this revelation, Tony is trained for his first undercover mission. Now that al Qaeda possesses nuclear bombs and is preparing to unleash them on American shores, Tony must be inserted, replacing his Doppelgänger, who is the number four man in al Qaeda! Using this mysterious resemblance, he must glean their attack plan, and safely escape to try to stop them. During his mission, Tony discovers an unthinkable truth! The noble victories that he orchestrated were brilliant and were performed more smoothly than the maneuvers of a chess master. He was the guardsman at the gate, watching, listening and waiting. Tony's victories were achieved at a high price. The hunter will soon become the hunted! Both he and his family have been marked for revenge as he faces his enemies' relentless forces in a battle to the death!

Counterfeit Currency

Counterfeit Currency
Author: M. Thomas Collins
Publisher: Loompanics Unltd
Total Pages: 137
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Counterfeits and counterfeiting
ISBN: 9781559500425

Professional methods and techniques for information and intelligence gathering... now revealed for you to use. Now you can find out anything you want to know about anyone you want to know about! Satisfy your need to know with these revealing professional manuals on investigation, crime and police sciences. "...a precise, step-by-step guide to producing and circulating counterfeit money... This book is interesting as an unabashed manual of criminality and for its blatant nose-thumbing at the law..". -- The Fifth Estate Learn how counterfeiters make money that looks, feels and spends like the real thing! Exact counterfeiting techniques are shown in step-by-step, illustrated detail. Printing money, "aging" money, passing money, buying equipment, setting up shop-all the secrets of the counterfeiter are revealed in this book. Sold for international purposes only.

Moneymakers

Moneymakers
Author: Ben Tarnoff
Publisher: Penguin Press HC
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781594202872

Chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters whose schemes reflected the culture of early America, describing their backgrounds and how they exploited period politics, economics and law enforcement to promote their operations.