Publisher's Synopsis
Absinthe is a booming business, with global trade expected to reach £44.3 billion by 2026. First produced in 1792, the spirit, known as 'the green fairy,' was banned worldwide by 1914 before the bans were gradually overturned beginning in 2007. Thus, on the black market, bottles that were produced before the ban are worth solid gold. Enter The Absintheur, a deadly-charismatic European art student whose real name we can't yet divulge. He charmed some of the best minds (and palates) in the beverage world into thinking that he was selling them precious vintage pre-ban bottles, for years. How did he get away with it? The Absinthe Forger pieces together The Absintheur's subterfuge, motivation, and hidden life story with the help of the absinthe connoisseurs who eventually proved his fraud while Evan Rail reported on it for the New York Times. It relates the illicit history of absinthe, from its birth in Switzerland through its coming of age in France, and on to the spirit's modern revival starting. The Absinthe Forger is a compellingly bizarre crime drama that will make you never look at wormwood in the same way again.
