Liss, David

http://davidliss.com

Benjamin Weaver is blackmailed into stealing documents from the ruthless British East India Company. This theft of trade secrets is only the first move in a daring conspiracy within the 18th Century’s most powerful corporation. To save his friends and family, Weaver must infiltrate the Company, navigate its warring factions, and uncover a secret plot of corporate rivals, foreign spies, and government operatives. Liss depicts the birth of the modern corporation.

Weaver starred in Liss' Edgar winner A Conspiracy of Paper ($15), a daring FMC Pick framed in the bust of the first financial bubble in 1720.

For a look at various schemes connected with Hamilton and the first Bank of the United States, jump to Pennsylvania at the close of the 18th Century in The Whiskey Rebels ($15).