The series
Alex Wrexford on Counterfeiting
Two true-crime investigations into the two-trillion-dollar fake economy, and the fight to prove what's real.
Book 1
The Takedown
“Stop counting takedowns. Start catching people.”
A teenager buys a pill that looks exactly like the real thing. It isn't. A hospital infuses a cancer drug that came through a chain nobody checked. It's fake. A military helicopter flies with a chip pulled from electronic waste and re-stamped as new.
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Book 2
The Infinite Fake
“You can't take down infinity. You can only prove what's real.”
A counterfeit brand, built in ninety seconds at a kitchen table, for nothing. A listing that wrote itself. Photographs of a product that never existed. Forty reviews in forty voices, one of them mildly annoyed about the delivery so the other thirty-nine read as real. No factory. No camera. No warehouse. None of the things that used to slow a faker down.
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