William Martin

City of Dreams William Martin

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.

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