A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel - Hardcover

Liss, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375502920 ISBN 13: 9780375502927

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-century London: a Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London's gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors and thieves.
In A Conspiracy of Paper, Weaver investigates a crime of the most personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockjobber. To find the answers, Weaver must contend with a desperate prostitute who knows too much about his past, relatives who remind him of his alienation from the Jewish faith, and a cabal of powerful men in the world of British finance who have hidden their business dealings behind an intricate web of deception and violence. Relying on brains and brawn, Weaver uncovers the beginnings of a strange new economic order based on stock speculation - a way of life that poses great risk for investors but real danger for Weaver and his family.

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Review:

.....a tale of eighteenth century finance, murder and religion that is a remarkable debut and a thoroughly satisfying novel (Arthur Golden, author of MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA)

A tremendously smart, assured and entertaining novel; an intricate mystery, a colourful rogue s' gallery and, improbably, a history lesson on the birth of the stock market (NEWSWEEK)

An evocation of English history that you can happily get lost in for days. (NEW YORK TIMES)

...Adroitly plotted and related with a great deal of panache (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Book Description:

A garrulous prostitute. A Jewish boxer. The mysterious death of a father ... and the origins of the modern stock market.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375502920
• ISBN 13: 9780375502927
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 442