The Devil's company
Subtitle: a novel
By: David Liss
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781400064199
Subjects: Private investigators; Jews; Fiction; East India Company; Benjamin Weaver (Fictitious character); History
Description: The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire, ex-boxer, and master of disguise, Londoner Benjamin 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. To save his friends and family from Cobb's reach--and more importantly to secure the welfare of England--Weaver must infiltrate the East India Company, navigate its warring factions, and uncover a secret plot of corporate rivals, foreign spies, and government operatives.