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FORMAT: Full length feature

COMP: Catch Me If You Can meets Sherlock Holmes

Pages: 109

LOGLINE: Liar, thief, and adulterer Greatrex devises a scheme to forge bank notes in 1866 with the help of the Grimshaw brothers, but detective McCall is on their trail in an adventure of love and greed that spans three continents before embroiling the president of the United States.

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Set between 1845 and 1867 we follow the journey of John Greatrex from the age of nineteen to forty as he leaves a trail of victims behind in his desire to make easy money and live a life of leisure in the bars and brothels.

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Convicted and sent to Australia, no setback will stop him as he travels across three continents continuously running from his trail of fraudulent escapades. With the advent of photography and possessing an ingenious mind, he ventures on his greatest plan...printing his own money.

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Few had tried before with any success, but Greatrex is a man of ingenuity and he possesses the tools to fool everyone.

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This story will transport you to a time when new technologies were changing lives. The industrial revolution is at its zenith with transportation and communications bringing the world closer than ever before. A derring-do adventure of greed and lust we enter a cat-and-mouse rivalry that pits rule breakers against law makers.

                

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