Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, 2008

Includes "P.S. Insights, interviews & more-- " (18 p. at end.)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Occupied Holland. A knock on the door ; Looted art ; The outbreak of war ; Quasimodo ; The end of forgery? ; Forgery 101 ; Occupied Holland ; The war against the Jews ; The forger's challenge ; Bargaining with vultures ; Van Meegeren's tears -- Hermann Goering and Johannes Vermeer. Hermann Goering ; Adolf Hitler ; Chasing Vermeer ; Goering's art collection ; Insights from a forger ; The amiable psychopath ; Goering's prize ; Vermeer ; Johannes Vermeer, superstar ; A ghost's fingerprints -- The selling of Christ at Emmaus. Two forged Vermeers ; The expert's eye ; A forger's lessons ; Bredius ; "Without any doubt" ; The uncanny valley ; Betting the farm ; Lady and Gentleman at the Harpsichord ; Dirk Hannema ; The choice ; The Caravaggio connection ; In the forger's studio ; Christ at Emmaus ; Underground tremors ; The summer of 1937 ; The lamb at the bank ; "Every inch a Vermeer" ; Two weeks and counting ; Too late! ; The last hurdle ; The unveiling -- Anatomy of a hoax. Scandal in the archives ; All in the timing ; Believing is seeing ; The men who knew too much ; Blue Monday ; He who hesitates ; The great changeover -- The chase. The secret in the salt mine ; The dentist's tale Goeringing on the run ; The nest egg ; Trapped! ; "I painted it myself!" ; Command performance ; The evidence piles up ; The trial ; The players make their exits