Joel Thorpe, a hard-driving speculator, has just sprung a trap on the men who shorted his company’s shares, and London’s financiers are at his mercy. Rich beyond reckoning, he turns to the next conquest: an aristocratic widow, a country estate and a place in English society, testing what money can buy.
The American author’s final novel, a sharp study of power and greed in the City of the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.