City of Dreams, William Martin
City of Dreams, William Martin
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City of Dreams

Author: William Martin

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 14 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/11/2010

Synopsis

“Can I interest you in saving America?”That’s the text message Peter Fallon receives from a Wall Street bigwig. It’s not a challenge he can turn down, especially since the country is in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The stock market is wobbling. The Chinese have stopped buying our T-bills. If we don’t get control of our deficit, our economic future looks grim.But all may not be lost. Hidden somewhere in New York City is a box of 1780s bonds with a face value of ten thousand dollars, part of a series of bonds called New Emission Money. The Supreme Court is about to decide if these bonds still have value. If the decision is yes, those ten thousand dollars, at 5 percent interest, will be worth a very pretty penny.A lot of very pretty pennies.Suddenly, their race against time becomes a race through time as Peter and Evangeline track the stories of New Yorkers whose lives have been changed by the bonds. They’ll confront frightened booksellers, heartless businessmen, former flames, renegade treasury agents, and the Russian mafia…and all the while they unravel the thrilling and inspiring origins of the City of Dreams.

About William Martin

William Martin has written seven novels, an award-winning PBS documentary, and a horror movie now considered a cult classic. He is best known, however, for his historical fiction, which has chronicled the history of Boston, New England, and the nation. His first novel, Back Bay, spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. His subsequent novels, including Harvard Yard, Citizen Washington, Annapolis, and Cape Cod, have established him, in the words of Publishers Weekly, as a “storyteller whose smoothness matches his ambition.” There are now more than three million copies of his books in print. Martin was the recipient of the 2005 New England Book Award, given by the New England Booksellers Association to an author whose “body of work stands as a significant contribution to the culture of the region.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Benjamin on February 01, 2018

Another delightful entry in the Peter Fallon historical novel/modern day thriller series. The setting of this one shifts from the usual Boston to New York City where Peter’s fiancé Evangeline is living. As always in this series, the story is split between a modern day (2010 in this case) thriller st......more

Goodreads review by C on April 21, 2010

This review is based on a set of advance proofs which I won in a Goodreads Giveaway. Boy HOWDY but this book was good! A walloping good time, a rollicking read! William Martin weaves four stories together, all from different eras, all related to a lost set of "New Emission Money" bonds issued in the l......more

Goodreads review by Sally Atwell on March 07, 2014

William Martin is a wonderful writer, and I can't put his books down for very long. This one was read in five days or less! His main characters, Peter and Evangeline, soon to be married, found themselves embroiled in a dangerous situation in New York City, where Evangeline lives. It is about some bo......more

Goodreads review by D.K. on March 20, 2011

I Loved this book. Martin has taken a slice of American history many of us know a little about but haven't really thought too much about, the use of revolutionary war notes to provision George Washington's army. He's done this in a setting coming alive with the details and minutia of early America.......more

Goodreads review by Donna on July 13, 2017

I continue to consider William Martin one of the best historical fiction authors. He moves so smoothly from the present time to history, and then back again. This City of Dreams is New York City, and obviously there are many familiar parts of the city as the setting for this story . The segments abo......more

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