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.
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