Paper conspiracy: David Liss

England, 1719. Benjamin Weaver – a boxer, whose battles followed, holding her breath, the whole country, including royal blood, left the ring. Now he is a private detective: he searches for the stolen and knocks out debts for his aristocratic customers. But the next noble gentleman invites him to investigate not something, but the murder, and double; And one of the victims is Wivere’s own father, the Exchange Mcler, with whom our hero has not seen for more than ten years after he ran away from the house. On the dark streets of the nightly London, where ominous shadows accompany the careless passerby, and in fashionable London coffee houses, in chic clubs and low -grade brothels Benjamin Weaver, risking his life, conducts its investigation. He is bold and decisive, but this is not enough. It is possible to uncover the matter only by penetrating the secret secrets of the English financial system, which, frozen, monitors the deadly fight of the Bank of England with the first financial pyramid of Europe – a powerful and dangerous company …

Author
Liss David
Translator
Nelyubova Irina
Publisher
Foreigner, 2014
Series
World detective
Genre
Modern foreign prose