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Hired by his onetime fiancée to find her missing husband, Ethan Saunders, a former spy for Washington during the Revolution, follows a trail that leads him to Alexander Hamilton, who is engaged in a struggle to build the new country's first real financial institution, and to rebellious whiskey-makers fiercely opposed to an onerous tax on their products. Simultaneous.
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Review:
"A Conspiracy of Paper"
"The plot draws you in from page to page. . . . An evocation of English history that you can happily get lost in for days."
"-The New York Times"
"Tremendously smart, assured, and entertaining . . . an intricate mystery, a colorful rogues' gallery and, improbably, a history lesson on the birth of the stock market."
"-Newsweek"
"A Spectacle of Corruption"
"[A] wonderful book . . . every bit as good as [Liss's] remarkable debut . . . easily one of the year's best."
"-The Boston Globe"
"[A] rousing sequel of historical intellectual suspense."
"-San Antonio Express-News"
About the Author:
"The plot draws you in from page to page. . . . An evocation of English history that you can happily get lost in for days."
"-The New York Times"
"Tremendously smart, assured, and entertaining . . . an intricate mystery, a colorful rogues' gallery and, improbably, a history lesson on the birth of the stock market."
"-Newsweek"
"A Spectacle of Corruption"
"[A] wonderful book . . . every bit as good as [Liss's] remarkable debut . . . easily one of the year's best."
"-The Boston Globe"
"[A] rousing sequel of historical intellectual suspense."
"-San Antonio Express-News"
"The Coffee Trader"
"Percolates with seventeenth-century intrigue . . . A story of cutthroat financial schemes, merciless creditors, collapsing markets, and deceitful men . . . In this book, even the hero is no saint."
-"USA Today"
"An entertaining tale . . . [a] learned page-turner . . . Despite the many characters and plot twists, Mr. Liss keeps his story in graceful motion."
"-The Wall Street Journal"
"From the Hardcover edition."
A gripping, visceral adventure of revenge, ambition, and romance filled with surprising twists and insights. Matthew Pearl, author of The Last Dickens
A breathtaking, breakneck tale told from the interwoven viewpoints of a top Revolutionary spy and a brilliant and cunning woman who becomes both his ally and his nemesis. Katherine Neville, author of The Fire" "and The Eight
What a wonderful book! An absorbing and entertaining novel of the American Revolution. Jon Meacham, author of American Lion
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"A gripping, visceral adventure of revenge, ambition, and romance filled with surprising twists and insights."--Matthew Pearl, author of The Last Dickens
David Liss is the author of The Whiskey Rebels, The Ethical Assassin, A Spectacle of Corruption, The Coffee Trader, and A Conspiracy of Paper, winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and children.
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- PublisherBrilliance Audio
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1423326962
- ISBN 13 9781423326960
- BindingMP3 CD
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