Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success-a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called “coffee.” To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. 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. 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. The Edgar Award–winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of the year.
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