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MAY I interest you in saving America?
That s the text subject matter Peter Fallon gets from a Wall Block bigwig. It s not a challenge he can change down, especially because the country is in the midst of the worst financial meltdown because the Great Depressive disorder. The currency markets is wobbling. The Chinese language have ceased buying our T-bills. If we don t get control of our deficit, our monetary future appears grim.
But all might not be lost. Hidden someplace in New York City is a container of 1780s bonds with a face value of ten thousand us dollars, part of a series of bonds called New Emission Money. The Supreme Court docket is about to determine if these bonds still have value. If the decision is yes, those ten thousand us dollars, at 5 percent interest, will be worthwhile a very lovely penny.
A lot of very lovely pennies.
Instantly, their contest against time becomes a contest through time as Peter and Evangeline track the testimonies of New Yorkers whose lives have been changed by the bonds. They ll confront frightened booksellers, heartless entrepreneurs, past flames, renegade treasury agents, and the Russian mafia and even while they unravel the thrilling and motivating origins of the town of Dreams.
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