One summers night, Will is handed a parcel. Inside is a literary rarity and after twenty years of living life on the straight and narrow, Will is drawn back to forgery, ensnared in a plot to counterfeit the rarest book in American literature: Edgar Allan Poe's, 'Tamerlane'. Part mystery, part case study, it portrays the world of literary forgery as clever, dangerous and inescapable.
A thrilling exploration of the passion that drives rare-book collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality.