The Coffee Trader
Author: David Liss
Amsterdam in the 1690s – a boom-town with Europe’s biggest stock exchange and traders who will stop at nothing to get even richer. Lienzo, a Portuguese Jew, stumbles across a new commodity – coffee – which could make him the richest man in Holland. But his rivals will do anything to stop him…..Read More
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