The Devil's Half Mile

✍ Scribed by Paddy Hirsch

• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 231 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

7 years after a financial crisis nearly topples America, traders chafe at government regulations, racial tensions are rising, and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians... 1799 was a hell of a year.

"What do you know about Wall Street, the slave trade, and the fate of immigrant Irish folks to New York in 1799? Probably as little as I did. I impatiently await the sequel." -- Patrick Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of the Irish Country Doctor series

Thanks to Alexander Hamilton, America recovered from the financial panic of 1792, but the new country is still finding its way. When a young lawyer returns to America to prove his father's innocence, he exposes a massive financial fraud that the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any cost. And reaching the highest levels, the looming crisis could topple the nation.

Fans of Gangs of New York and historical thrillers like those of Caleb Carr and Erik Larsen...