Alan Figg, (real name: Alexi Figopoulos), has worked as a professional forger for over 30 years, from Greece to Guadeloupe, from Poland to Portugal, and is now back in Brunswick where he started all those years ago. Figg prides himself on the fact that he always delivers for his clients - who range from embezzlers to murderers, from the Ukrainian mafia to the South African criminal network based out of Perth - forging passports, bank accounts, university degrees, credit cards, and basically anything that's required to create a new identity and a new life. But Figg is getting old and his tradecraft is beginning to slip. He becomes aware of this when a thug known as the Croat gives him an ultimatum: Work for him 'exclusively' or be rubbed out. Figg isn't intimated easily but this scares the bejesus out of him. But Figg realizes that something doesn't smell right, there's more to this than meets the eye. He needs to figure out what's behind the Croat's threat. To buy time he instructs ...