by David Liss · Grijalbo Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425341151
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«La compañía de la seda» is the historical novel by David Liss, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in hardcover (496 pages, in Spanish).
London, 1722. Benjamin Weaver, a Jew of humble origins, former boxer and bounty hunter, is hired by the eccentric and mysterious millionaire Cobb to investigate on his behalf. The plot leads him into a tangle of corruption, espionage and unfair competition around the silk and spice trade, reflecting the darkest economic interests of the era.
Third installment in the Benjamin Weaver saga. Originally published as «The Devil's Company», translated by Francisco Javier Calzada. 2007 edition.
Written by an Edgar Award-winning author, it is aimed at readers of historical fiction and mystery set in the eighteenth century.
David Liss is an American writer of novels, essays and short fiction; more recently working also in comic books. He was born in New Jersey and grew up in South Florida. Liss received his BA degree from Syracuse University, an MA from Georgia State University and his M. Phil from Columbia University. He left his post-graduate studies of 18th Century British literature and unfinished dissertation to write full-time. "If things had not worked out with fiction, I probably would have kept to my graduate school career track and sought a job as a literature professor," he said. A full-time writer since 2010, Liss lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and children.
