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On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln created and commissioned the United States Secret Service to suppress counterfeiting. Counterfeit currency has been a potent political weapon for nations trying to undermine the U.S. economy. The most insidious and dangerous example of this came to be known as the “Supernote,” the first nearly undetectable $100 Federal Reserve note. It had the potential to undermine the economy of the United States and threaten the financial stability of the entire world. Finding the printer became the primary focus of the United States Secret Service. Given that each day literally trillions of U.S. dollars change hands, it is easy to see how a single counterfeit $100 bill is like an individual virus, nearly invisible, airborne, highly infectious, and almost impossible to capture. Even clusters of a few thousand here or there at a casino or a car dealership, an equipment purchase, or payment for illicit contraband can cause these “viral particles” to spread like wildfire, and tracing them back to their “super spreader” is like finding a needle in a haystack. This is what the Supernote creators were counting on. What they did not count on was the dedication and perseverance of United States Secret Service Special Agent Ross Garrett. For him every day was game day, there were no practices. While some names, places and dates have been changed, this is the story of how the Supernote investigation unfolded and how it ended. As so often is the case, truth turned out to be stranger than fiction.
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Crossings is a collection of short stories that began years ago with scribblings on Post-it notes and journals, all set aside while the author was engulfed in a teaching career, a poetry group with university colleagues and writing for the academic marketplace. Resurfaced, completed and revised, the stories grew out of her favorite words: what if, words that plunged her into a world of the paranormal and all manner of phenomenon that, but for the courage of a cadre of researchers and experiencers, often rest outside the realm of science and too often the object of ridicule and indifference. Beginning with, “The Crossing,” Boston is home to the characters in each tale, a city with a long and varied history of American experience. The first-person “telling” by the central characters intimately connects each narrator with the reader in these tales of the unexpected and unexplained, a journey behind the curtain where curiosity and experience lay.
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As a Special Agent of the United States Secret Service, Jim Davidson protected six Presidents as well as many international dignitaries. As Assistant Special Agent in Charge of three Headquarters Divisions, he directed counterfeit currency investigations and Treasuryrelated forgery and fraud investigations, giving him keen insight and fi rsthand knowledge of this dangerous and fascinating corner of crime.