Little Valley, New York, 1911. The men who break into the knife works leave the money behind. They have come for the steel die that stamps a family's reputation onto a blade. A stolen die puts a trusted name on counterfeit knives, fire tears through the works, and Will Case makes a choice he will spend the rest of his life trying to explain.
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On a pocketknife, the maker's name is struck into the tang, the base of the blade, with a hardened steel die. That stamp is the maker's promise of quality, and the reason a counterfeit mark could do so much damage. The novel is set at the knife works in Little Valley, in western New York, where that mark was struck.