The Coffee Merchant is the novel by the author of the intellectual bestseller who have already been loved by the Russian reader “Conspiracy of Papers” and “Fair of Corruption”. However, he does not tell about the London adventures of Benjamin Weever, but about Amsterdam – his grandfather. Miguel Lienso is a successful merchant and exchange figure. Rather, he was successful, until he got involved in the adventure that had ruined him with Brazilian sugar. Now he is forced to live with his brother, feed creditors with breakfasts and dream of a new grandiose transaction, which at once will correct his financial situation and glorify him to the entire Dutch capital. When the cheerful widow of Gertrude Damheis invites him to engage in the trading of a new exotic product – coffee grains, he sees in this exactly the chance that he dreamed about. The case is small – plan the exchange operations of unprecedented scope throughout Europe, to circle Amsterdam with the largest financial collars, whose awareness of Miguel’s secret plans borders on the supernatural and find …
Author
Liss David
Translator
Nelyubova Irina
Publisher
Foreigner, 2014
Series
World detective
Genre
Modern foreign prose
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