The Forger

Paul Watkins

earliest edition we have, 2000 Picador USA, 2000 hardcover 322 pages

"It is 1939, and young American art student David Halifax has ventured to Paris - just before the outbreak of the Second World War. An art dealer puts some of his paintings on the market, attempting to pass them off as the work of an Old Master, but when the ruse is uncovered, it is Halifax who is arrested, and charged with forgery. As the Nazis converge upon Paris, Halifax is then press-ganged into service by the Re...

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The forger edition · 2002 · Ulverscroft · 9780708947012
The Forger paperback · 2001 · Faber and Faber · 240 pages · 9780571206391
The Forger paperback · 2001 · Picador · 336 pages · 9780312276966
The forger hardcover · 2000 · Picador USA · 322 pages
The forger edition · 2000 · Faber and Faber · 338 pages

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