Why a Booktrail?
1970s – Follow the story of an international fraudster across Ireland, Europe and the United States of America….based on a true story.
Someone has Taken My Place
What you need to know before your trail
Irish Fraud Investigator Andrew Stone is on the trail of the serial fraudster known in Ireland as the Texan. The fraudster he is looking for is very clever – he’s not only proving to be extremely elusive but he is inventive and utterly determined to get what he wants.
Stone pieces together the international conman’s tortuous spider’s web of illegal aliases and criminal intent in a chase across Ireland, Europe and the United States of America as, with the help of the FBI, former KGB Agents, the United States Secret Service, Interpol and the Irish police,he attempts to bring justice to all those who have been his victim, including the bereaved parents of young babies whose identities have been stolen
Locations
Reset- Republic of Ireland
- A: Dublin - Balbriggan
- B: Co. Kildare - Craddockstown
- C: Co Kildare - The Curragh
- America/USA
- D: TX - Texas
- E: AZ - Tombstone
Travel Guide
Insurance fraud may not sound like the most exciting premise for a trail around the world, but when you realise that this is based on a true story, it takes on a whole new meaning.
The chase for a fraudster is thrilling and the reader is with Stone every step of the way. From the phone calls to the plane journeys, we experience the sheer frustration of dead end leads, thump the desk when something works out and scratch our heads when a clue is baffling.
Stone is a hard case of an investigator – he says to one man that he is going to conclude his investigation within a week and talk to the investigating officer, he really means –
This was the polite way of saying I am going to verify your statement and confirm if you are telling the truth
So many settings – and trails – which soon resembles a cork board with many pins and crossed lines all over the place.
Ireland
Balbriggan, Craddockstown in Naas, the curragh….Dublin….the trail gets curiouser and curiouser. And just where does Liverpool come into it all?
USA
Stone has many contacts in the USA where he telephones to find out the connections between their man in Ireland and the trail he has left behind in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arizona. Just who is this man and what has he done?
As Stone himself says at one point as the case is unravelling before his eyes
“I was sure we had only revealed the tip of the iceberg”
Where Next?
