Coffee Trader Liss DavidPaperback
Coffee Trader Liss DavidPaperback The Edgar Award-winning novel "A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659--a mysterious world of trade…
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Coffee Trader Liss DavidPaperback
The Edgar Award-winning novel "A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659--a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history.
Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city's close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. On the world's first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Once among the city's most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets.
Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who