[Urbane Guerrilla]

Although counterfeit currency is always destabilizing, come to that.

The idea in that Reacher story was to bleach the printing off the correct linen paper -- then change things. To be really convincing, it'd need to replicate the high pressure intaglio printing process of the genuine bills. The story pretty much had an entire industrial plant to do it.

So Jack Reacher blew it up in the last chapter in a James Bond eruption. "Every place he goes -- it blows up." -- Lenny Henry

Cleverer than that one felon, if his offense actually rose to a felony, who cut the corner numbers off a twenty to paste onto a single, to pass that. I'd've wanted to be a fly on the wall in that courtroom hearing; the judge's cheeks must have hurt. "Allow me to consider: you expended twenty-one dollars to forge exactly one twenty..."