A Conspiracy of Paper

THE HISTORICAL THRILLER OF THE YEAR

Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-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 we