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Coffee Trader - Signed 1st Printing
by Liss, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Vg/Vg Signed By Author. Faint Stain Rfep. Text Clean, Binding Tight. Pages: 389. /Vg (See description)
- ISBN 10
- 0375508546
- ISBN 13
- 9780375508547
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Vg/Vg Signed By Author. Faint Stain Rfep. Text Clean, Binding Tight. Pages: 389.. 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover..
Synopsis
The Edgar Award--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, 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. 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.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. 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. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.From the Hardcover edition.
Reviews
On Dec 7 2010, CoffeeMillionaire said:
Most people don't know about the most traded commodity on earth. This looks like a great book.
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- Bookseller
- Vintage-Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MASTER279315I
- Title
- Coffee Trader - Signed 1st Printing
- Author
- Liss, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover.
- Book Condition
- Used - Vg/Vg Signed By Author. Faint Stain Rfep. Text Clean, Binding Tight. Pages: 389.
- Jacket Condition
- Vg (See description)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375508546
- ISBN 13
- 9780375508547
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction, Signed Books
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