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A Conspiracy of Paper: Benjamin Weaver Series, Book 2 by David Liss,John Lee,Tantor Audio

Read Online and Download A Conspiracy of Paper: Benjamin Weaver Series, Book 2 by David Liss,John Lee,Tantor Audio. Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in 18th-century London: a Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London's gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors and thieves. In A Conspiracy of Paper, Weaver investigates a crime of the most personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockjobber. To find the answers, Weaver must contend with a desperate prostitute who knows too much about his past, relatives who remind him of his alienation from the Jewish faith, and a cabal of powerful men in the world of British finance who have hidden their business dealings behind an intricate web of deception and violence. Relying on brains and brawn, Weaver uncovers the beginnings of a strange new economic order based on stock speculation - a way of life that poses great risk for investors but real danger for Weaver and his family. In the tradition of The Alienist and written with scholarly attention to period detail, A Conspiracy of Paper is one of the wittiest and most suspenseful historical novels in recent memory, as well as a perceptive and beguiling depiction of the origin of today's financial markets.

A Conspiracy of Paper: Benjamin Weaver Series, Book 2 by David Liss,John Lee,Tantor Audio Review

Take a wild ride to early 18th-century England. You'll meet a famous Jewish boxer, the men behind the South Sea Bubble, and the world's first modern crime lord. Welcome to David Liss' carefully constructed account of A Conspiracy of Paper. The book won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel.Rampant financial skulduggery: the South Sea BubbleThe opening decades of the 18th century in England were an era of rapid change, like our own time. Although paper money had been invented centuries earlier in China, its use did not become widespread in Europe until after the middle of the 17th century. The Bank of England issued the first banknotes only in 1695. Within two decades, when A Conspiracy of Paper is set, speculation had begun to swirl around the new paper financial instruments, especially shares in the early joint-stock companies. Most of the "stock-jobbers" (today's stockbrokers) who peddled these shares were an unscrupulous lot. Fraud was rampant. And nowhere was the speculation wilder than in the shares of the South Sea Company. The turmoil on the Exchange culminated in 1720 in the world's first stock market crash. This was the event that came to be known as the South Sea Bubble.A crime-ridden city without policeA Conspiracy of Paper is set in 1719, when the population of London was approximately 600,000. (There were only a handful of larger cities in the world, and only in Asia.) Most of the city's residents lived in squalor. Crime was rampant, murder common. There were no police other than the thugs who roamed the city to grab citizens and haul them off to jail for generous awards, usually for not paying their bills. Anyone who lives today in a modern city would find the sights and smells—especially the smells—of London in that era to be insufferable. And all these conditions enter the picture in abundant detail in this skillfully written historical novel.A famous Jewish boxerBen Weaver was born and raised the son of a wealthy stock-jobber named Samuel Lienzo. The family are what today we know as Sephardic Jews (although the term used then was Iberian). He left home as a teenager, changed his name, and turned to a life as a boxer, becoming known as the Lion of Judah. When injury ended his boxing career, Ben turned to crime. Years later, reformed, he has earned a living as a "thief-taker," capturing thieves and delivering them to the constables for a reward. But, unlike Jonathan Wild, a competitor who dominates the city, Ben is honest and reliable. However, he is constantly forced to prove himself because of rampant anti-Semitism and the terrible reputation of Jewish stock-jobbers like his father.A fateful coincidenceWriting thirty-five years after the fact, Ben relates how he was approached by a prosperous gentleman named William Balfour and asked to investigate the death of his father. The elder Balfour was determined to have committed suicide. And, in what is surely no coincidence, Ben's own father had died not a day earlier when run over in the street by a carriage. Lienzo and Balfour's father had done business together. The assignment sets Ben off on a fraught investigation that carries him to all corners of the city—and threatens to upend the fortunes of the South Sea Company and the Bank of England.The first modern crime lordAlthough most of the characters in A Conspiracy of Paper are entirely fictitious, both Ben Weaver and Jonathan wild are based on historical figures. Ben is modeled on a Jewish boxer of the period named Daniel Mendoza, and Liss notes that Jonathan Wild, who controlled many of London's criminals early in the 18th century, "is generally acknowledged as the first modern crime lord."About the authorDavid Liss is the author of eleven novels, most of them historical fiction. He wrote A Conspiracy of Paper while pursuing a Ph.D. in English literature at Columbia. Apparently, the book did so well that he turned to full-time writing and never finished his dissertation.

I loved this book. A mystery set in the Jewish slums of London with an intriguing lead character, a former bareknuckle boxer and a Sephardic Jew of Portuguese ancestry he is held in double contempt by the men he works for as a thief-taker (he might be the first private I, LOL). The subplot of his integration into the Jewish community in London after rejecting it years before and the background of the first financial bubble when stocks were something brand new were really well done. The historical references and the glimpses into a London that is long gone were great and the mystery at the heart of the story was almost as good, but this is a character driven book and I loved the lead. A great read and a high recommendation from me for both history lovers and mystery lovers and those, like me, who love a helping of both.

The author has a tremendous gift for language, not only in a current context but writing in the manner and language common to 17th century London. While it is by no means a "Sherlock Holmes" mystery (although there are parallels in terms of deductive behavior on the part of the lead character, Benjamin Weaver), when reading it I was enjoying the sheer pleasure of the more mannered conversations, the lower class idioms, descriptions of London's seamier neighborhoods, and the interactions of the various characters. It was a definite page-turner both from the plot twists and turns and also from just the sheer enjoyment of an excellent writer and linguist at work. The plot is confusing, but then again it was confusing to Benjamin Weaver as well as he chased many false leads - so no complaints about that. Benjamin is dogged in his pursuit of those behind the murder of his Father, and as other reviewers have noted the answer lies somewhere in the financial world whose primary players are the Bank of England and the South Seas Company. There is really no need to have knowledge of stock trading, although that terminology is used throughout, but there are parallels to current financial markets in terms of how the value of stocks are driven as much by public perception as they are by financial fundamentals. Bottom line it's a great mystery and a great read. I will definitely read more books by this author. Highly recommend

As a reader of novels both historical and not, I can't say I was too surprised to find out David Liss to be a doctoral candidate of history and finance because though he provided an enormous amount of historical information about 18th century England with the emergence of "'Change Alley" and the radical changes it brought to English finance, the story he told was so slow it felt like "pulling teeth" to get from one event to the next. I was hardly able to stick with it and feel that the author needs to learn a great deal more about how to write a flowing, exciting action novel for me to ever want to read another of his books. I take heart that what I learned of the evil and murderous beginnings of 18th century English stock market will help me understand the current U.S. one so that when future stock crashes occur and no one at the top is ever found guilty, though the rich and powerful continue to enrich their own purses at a scandalous rate, I will no longer be surprised.

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