“So what’s the plan and why do you need me in on it?” Maverick asked late Sunday morning as he and Dirk ate breakfast. “Okay, scratch the last. You said the Leightons would recognize the three of you.”
“Yep, which would blow things out of the water, big time.”
“So, what do you have in mind?”
“As I said to the kids…”
“Kids?” Maverick grinned. “They’d kill you if they heard you call them that.”
“Yeah, I know, but comparatively…Anyway, as I was saying, the Leightons are very proud of their book collection, as they should be. So how would they react if an expert let them know that he believed the book we’re after was an excellent forgery, and could prove it if they’d let him examine it?”
“If it were me, I’d tell him he’s wrong and I have the provenance papers to prove it.”
“Which I’m su
