Jeopardy Author:Manfred Conte (First published in Germany under the title Cassia und der Abenteurer. English translation first published in Great Britain in 1955 under the title Cassia.) A very well written post-WWII tale of an extremely gifted artist struggling financially with the added burden of bitter estrangement from his father who is also a brilliant artist. He beg... more »an to make etching forgeries to survive. Then fate drove him to step up to counterfeiting money -first non-US dollars to avoid the Secret Service. Finally, he graduated to US hundred dollar bills. And the chase was on.« less