The Coffee Trader
David Liss
Click here to join our rewards scheme and earn points on this purchase!
Release Date: 06/03/2003
* An original financial thriller set in 17th century Amsterdam Amsterdam in the 1690s - a boom town with Europe's biggest stock exchange and traders who will stop at nothing to get even richer.
* This is a rich and satisfying second novel from the Edgar Award winner.
Lienzo, a Portugese Jew, stumbles across a new commodity - coffee - which, if he plays his cards right, will make him the richest man in Holland. But others stand in his way - rival traders who do all in their power to confuse the exchange and scupper his plans, his brother who is jealous of his financial wizardry and even his brother's beautiful wife who both tempts and spurns him in equal measure.