CHAPTER 4The first message on the machine was from Paul Rochefort and the second was from his secretary, asking me to please call back as soon as possible. Rochefort was a business attorney who represented legal interests in Paris for international firms. One of his clients was Meacham Services Ltd., which sometimes threw work my way when its staff investigators were overloaded.
Jasper Meacham, a former Scotland Yard fraud squad detective, now ran his own company with branch offices around the world. He specialized in what had become the most lucrative line in private investigation work: trapping industrial counterfeiters who made bogus copies of everything from Chanel perfumes to Apple computers.
Fritz Donhoff considered gathering evidence against these name-brand fakers to be boring wo
