In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Miguel Lienzo, a Portuguese-Jewish trader who has lost everything in the sugar market and is desperate to recover his fortune, enters into a partnership with seductive Geertruid Damhouder to introduce coffee to the city and must confront betrayal, greed, and a ruthless adversary to succeed. 75,000 first printing.
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David Liss is the author of <i>A Conspiracy of Paper</i>, winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. He has a graduate degree in English literature from Columbia University, as well as an M.A. from Georgia State University and a B.S. from Syracuse University. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and daughter, and can be reached via his website, www.davidliss.com.
ard–winning novel <i>A Conspiracy of Paper</i> was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659―a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day.<br><br>On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. 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.<br><br>Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success―a daring plot to co
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