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The Last Counterfeiter
The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill
Book • 2024
The Last Counterfeiter chronicles the remarkable life of Art Williams Jr., a disadvantaged youth from Chicago's South Side who became one of the greatest counterfeiters of the last 25 years.
Abandoned by his father and raised by a mentally ill mother, Art turns to crime before learning counterfeiting from a mentor nicknamed DaVinci.
His obsessive quest to perfectly replicate the 1996 New Note—the most secure U.S.
bill ever created—establishes him as a master criminal while he evades federal authorities.
Beyond the crime narrative, the book explores themes of family redemption, as Art eventually reinvents himself as a professional artist after imprisonment, even sharing a cell with his own son.
Abandoned by his father and raised by a mentally ill mother, Art turns to crime before learning counterfeiting from a mentor nicknamed DaVinci.
His obsessive quest to perfectly replicate the 1996 New Note—the most secure U.S.
bill ever created—establishes him as a master criminal while he evades federal authorities.
Beyond the crime narrative, the book explores themes of family redemption, as Art eventually reinvents himself as a professional artist after imprisonment, even sharing a cell with his own son.
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