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devils company
by liss, david
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0812974522
- ISBN 13
- 9780812974522
- Seller
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RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Trade Paperback. Ballantine Books. Clean Text, No Water Damage, Strong Binding. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.
Synopsis
From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, David Liss has created one of fiction's most enthralling characters.The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire, ex-boxer, and master of disguise, Weaver finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, pitted against Jerome Cobb, a wealthy and mysterious schemer who needs Weaver's strength and guile for his own treacherous plans.Weaver is blackmailed into stealing documents from England's most heavily guarded estate, the headquarters of the ruthless British East India Company, but the theft of corporate secrets is only the first move in a daring conspiracy within the eighteenth century's most powerful corporation. To save his friends and family from Cobb's reach, Weaver must infiltrate the Company, navigate its warring factions, and uncover a secret plot of corporate rivals, foreign spies, and government operatives. With millions of pounds and the security of the nation at stake, Weaver will find himself in a labyrinth of hidden agendas, daring enemies, and unexpected allies.With the explosive action and scrupulous period research that are David Liss's trademarks, The Devil's Company, depicting the birth of the modern corporation, is the most impressive achievement yet from an author who continues to set ever higher standards for historical suspense.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1564518
- Title
- devils company
- Author
- liss, david
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0812974522
- ISBN 13
- 9780812974522
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- Usa
- This edition first published
- 2010-04-20
Terms of Sale
Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books
Books not matching listed description may returned for full refund within 30 days of original sale.
About the Seller
Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books
Biblio member since 2005
RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin
About Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books
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