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A Conspiracy of Paper

A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

By David Liss

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| Paperback | 9780804119122

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Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family—until he is asked to investigate his father’s sudden death. Thus Weaver deContinue

Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family—until he is asked to investigate his father’s sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffee houses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and bordellos. The more Weaver uncovers, the darker the truth becomes, until he realizes that he is following too closely in his father’s footsteps—and they just might lead him to his own grave. An enthralling historical thriller, A Conspiracy of Paper will leave readers wondering just how much has changed in the stock market in the last three hundred years. . . .

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  • A Conspiracy of Paper By David Liss

    This historical novel is set in the shadowy underworld of 18th century London, where Benjamin Weaver, a former boxer, makes his living by finding debtors and thieves for wealthy clients. When he is asked to look into the death of his own father, a su ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • A Conspiracy of Paper By David Liss

    The seeds of stock market greedAnd much more fuels David Liss's brilliantly conceived novel, A Conspiracy of Paper. Amid the rowdy taverns, squalid street life, wicked wenches, and thriving underworld of early 18th century London, Liss introduces Ben ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  • What I liked most in this novel is how it describes the evolution of the protagonist from a man of pure action - so straightforward in everything that he verges on naive - to someone capable of fine abstract thinking. Eventually I realized it might be also an allegory of the transition from silver a ... (continue)

    What I liked most in this novel is how it describes the evolution of the protagonist from a man of pure action - so straightforward in everything that he verges on naive - to someone capable of fine abstract thinking. Eventually I realized it might be also an allegory of the transition from silver and gold to papermoney, a core topic of this book.

    Next best thing, for once a writer gives a sensible, plausible reason for a woman to turn down the proposal of a man she fancies!

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