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Adéntrese en las sombrías calles del Londres del siglo XVIII a través de las memorias de un antiguo boxeador de lucha a puño limpio convertido en 'cazador de ladrones'. Esta serie de misterio histórico sumerge a los lectores en apasionantes investigaciones criminales, entrelazando intrigas, luchas personales y una auténtica atmósfera de época. Cada caso desentraña una nueva capa del submundo londinense y del complejo personaje de su narrador.

La compañía de la seda
A Conspiracy of Paper: A Spectacle of Corruption
A Conspiracy of Paper

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  1. A Conspiracy of Paper

    • 512 páginas
    • 18 horas de lectura

    Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family - until he is asked to investigate his father’s sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffee houses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and bordellos. The more Weaver uncovers, the darker the truth becomes, until he realizes that he is following too closely in his father’s footsteps - and they just might lead him to his own grave. An enthralling historical thriller, A Conspiracy of Paper will leave readers wondering just how much has changed in the stock market in the last three hundred years ...

    A Conspiracy of Paper1
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  2. A Conspiracy of Paper: A Spectacle of Corruption

    • 400 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura

    Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn’t commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly—and equally mysteriously—offered the means to escape. What, you may well ask, is going on? It’s a question Weaver asks of himself as he slinks out into the London night on a mission to clear his name. In doing so, he steps straight into a labyrinthine plot that weaves, like Benjamin, across eighteenth century London. For the conspiracy against him is part of a grimmer and gaudier picture: one that encompasses double-dealings and dockworkers, the extorting of a priest—and a looming election with the potential to spark a revolution and topple the monarchy. Handily, Weaver is a private investigator. He’s also an ex-pugilist, which is also a good thing when it comes to punching his weight in the ‘polite’ society of plotters and politicians, power-brokers, crime lords, assassins and spies. At the apex of which sits, rather precariously, a recent import from Hanover: the king.

    A Conspiracy of Paper: A Spectacle of Corruption2
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  3. La compañía de la seda

    • 496 páginas
    • 18 horas de lectura

    David Liss, ganador del prestigioso premio Edgar, sorprende con una magnífica novela, protagonizada por un peculiar investigador que debe desentrañar un complot en torno al comercio de la seda con las colonias británicas de ultramar... Londres, 1722. En la época de apogeo del mercado de importación de seda y especias, Benjamin Weaver, judío de extracción humilde, ex boxeador y cazarrecompensas, se ve acorralado por el excéntrico y misterioso millonario Cobb para que investigue en su provecho. Muy pronto Weaver se ve sumergido en una maraña de corrupción, espionaje y competencia desleal cuyo trasfondo son los más oscuros intereses económicos y comerciales.

    La compañía de la seda3
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