The man from Lisbon: A novel
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A daring fraud makes one man a titan and brings a nation to its knees The son of a failing undertaker Alves Reis was young when he realizedlearned early on that death comes quickly and a man must make his fortune while he can. In 1916 Reis he leftaves Portugal for Angola where the hardships of colonial life dashed his dream of easy riches. But it is then at his mostIn desperate straits that Alves discovers his true talent: forgery. With an unerring hand Alves begins to counterfeit. He falsifies diplomas government documents currency and countless checks on his way to perpetrating one of the greatest frauds of the tTwentieth Ccentury. Inspired by the true story of a master swindler Gifford brings to life a breathtaking international scam. Before Bernie Madoff before Frank Abagnale there was Alves Reisa master forger with talent vision and an uncompromising drive to succeed no matter what man bank or nation stood in his way.
