There’s also the question of sources. Kersten reconstructed Williams’s story from interviews and legal documents. The Secret Service, which is charged with chasing down counterfeiters, clammed up after granting him one interview, he says.
Though Kersten has stitched together a rattling narrative, the story in places hinges on Williams’s version of events. Can he be trusted? This is, after all, a convict. As the book closes, he has pleaded guilty to manufacturing more than US$89,000 and been sentenced to 87 months. In telling his story, was this master counterfeiter tempted to adjust a color here, fake a watermark there?
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