Read Series: Benjamin Weaver
by Author David Liss
The Devil's Company (2009)
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 ...
La conjura (2005)
Londres, 1720. Harto de la notoriedad que le persigue por un crimen que no había cometido, Benjamin Weaver, judío, ex boxeador, de extracción humilde y cazarrecompensas, decide contar su historia, exponer en un libro qué hechos lo llevaron a ser condenado a muerte y cómo consiguió huir de la pris...
A Spectacle of Corruption (2005)
What I liked:The main character – nothing changed here. We deal here with a very likeable rouge but if you take into account the times he lived in and his underprivileged position within the English society you might judge him even less harshly. Of course Benjamin is hardly a saint - it makes him...
Una conspiracion de papel (2001)
En Una conspiración de papel, Benjamin Weaver se enfrenta a un crimen relacionado con la muerte de su padre, un especulador que se movía como pez en el agua en la Bolsa de Londres. Para hallar respuestas, el protagonista deberá escarbar en su pasado y contactar con parientes lejanos que le reproc...
A Conspiracy of Paper (2015)
First things first. I was fortunate enough to meet David Liss following a panel discussion at the 2013 San Antonio Book Festival. He was cordial, friendly, but almost the textbook academic nerd. Expected, I suppose, but meeting authors whom seem like they would much rather be locked away in the l...