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n Like the love child of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle . . . delightful to read.--NPR.org, on The Forgersn n nA gripping literary thriller that brings readers inside the world of expert forgery, rivalrous fury, and generations of dark family secrets, with Mary Shelleys voice and life woven throughoutn n nLiterary forger Henry Slader, assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, awakens in a shallow grave, suffocating in dirt. Concussed and disoriented, Slader exhumes himself and sets out to exact revenge on his rival, orchestrate Wills downfall, and make a fortune along the way--armed with a devastating secret about Wills past.n n nSlader quickly draws in Wills daughter, Nicole, wielding his threats against her father to blackmail her into forging inscriptions by such authors as Poe, Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Nicoles skill grows, so does her devotion to--and doubts about--her fathers integrity, until she commits the ultimate betrayal for the sake of his freedom. With breathtakingly precise background knowledge and virtuoso execution, Nicole forges a suite of brilliantly convincing and surpassingly valuable letters by Frankenstein author Mary Shelley--planting within them the seeds of Sladers doom.n n nMoving between upstate New York, a village in Ireland, London, and ending in a shocking standoff at the site of Mary Shelleys grave in a coastal town in Southern England, The Forgers Requiem is both a compelling standalone novel and the crescendo ending to the trilogy Joyce Carol Oates has called lethally enthralling to read.n
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