In A Conspiracy, the character of Miguel Lienzo appears as the great-uncle of the protagonist, Benjamin Weaver. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.From the Hardcover edition.Liss is the author of several historical mystery novels, including A Conspiracy of Paper, which won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam's ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas.With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. 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 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. 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. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659-a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day.On the world's first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. 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 2000.
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