Set in New York and Québec during the French and Indian War (1754–1763), The Counterfeiter centers on Andrew Whitlaw, a Manhattan physician who—after an ongoing struggle with syphilis—must relocate to his wealthy brother’s estate in the Hudson Valley to recover. From this starting point, the novel follows the narrator as he grows embroiled in his brother’s obsessive pursuit of a counterfeiter costing the Whitlaw family trading business dearly with his false bills, a man they later discover to be a fugitive from slavery operating on Native American land. |