what a coup , he thought , to find this story in the muck of daily crap afflicting the city : a story that would be read by everyone with bewilderment and awe ; a story with his byline atop it , with readers waiting each morning for the latest installment of corruption , intrigue and subterfuge involving an international art counterfeiting ring ; a story that would have the best reporters from papers across the world reading his story for leads ; and , a story that would be printed , verbatim , in newspapers around the world .