Lisbon
Books
- Printed by the Bank Itself Alves dos Reis, Waterlow & Sons, and the Banknote Fraud That Shook Portugal · Liszt Think
In 1925, a Lisbon clerk with a forged Oxford diploma orchestrated the largest banknote fraud in history.
- The Clerk from Lisbon…berration but a condition of doing business. Reis had come seeking the engineering career that his family’s circumstances had foreclosed in Lisbon. His father, an undertaker whose financial troubles had ended in insolvency, had left his son with both a horror of debt and an intimate un…
- The Forged Pedigree…tched, to Reis’s satisfaction, the specimens he had obtained from university publications. He presented it at a meeting in the offices of a Lisbon construction firm, sliding the case across a mahogany desk to a man whose name does not survive in the records but whose function is clear:…
- The Printer on Threadneedle Street…dger, verified the custody signature from the last inspection, and noted the date in a column ruled in red ink. The plates had arrived from Lisbon seven years earlier, part of a routine order from a long-standing client. The clerk had never seen Portugal, could not have named its finan…
- The Lisbon Drop A Novel of Wartime Lisbon · Liszt Think
Lisbon, winter 1942. Neutral Portugal is a city of watchers, and Ana Ferreira is one of them — a translator in the censorship office who reads every telegram that crosses her desk.
- The Telegram and the First Sale…hat had long since become inaudible to everyone except Ana. ARRIVAL CONFIRMED. CORMORANT DEPARTED HAMBURG 14 MAY ABOARD SS IBERIA. EXPECTED LISBON 17 MAY. HANDLER CONTACT VIA STANDARD CHANNEL. MAINTAIN OBSERVATION. VOGEL. She read it twice. The first time for meaning. The second time f…
- The First Discrepancy…e of it reached her. She was somewhere else entirely. The telegram was from the British naval attaché’s office in Gibraltar, routed through Lisbon, addressed to a contact code she did not recognize. It concerned a fisherman operating out of Sesimbra, thirty kilometres down the coast. T…
- The Fisherman's Name…walls. Somewhere above her, a door closed. She read the telegram again. It had arrived on the afternoon wire from Faro, routed through the Lisbon exchange at 15: 42, and it concerned a fishing vessel — the Santa Beatriz — whose owner, one João Garção, had been observed making regular…