The Coffee Trader: A Novel

The Coffee Trader: A Novel

The Edgar Awardâ€“winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper 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, 1659â€”a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day.

On the worldâ€™s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the cityâ€™s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the cityâ€™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 offers him one last chance at successâ€”a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called â€œcoffee.â€ 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. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdamâ€™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. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2003-03-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375508547

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2003-03-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375508547

The Coffee Trader: A Novel

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