The young man with his deposits of nineteen and one-half millions-and
more to come-troubled the president. With that much cash, Grinnell
already was a potential disturber of finance. With much more he could be
infinitely worse-to the public and to the great moneyed interests. -from
The Golden Flood This financial mystery novels revolves around an
enigmatic young man who deposits ever-increasing sums of gold bars into
a large bank, much to the bank president's bemused chagrin. A century
after its original publication in 1905, this remains must reading for
those looking for insight into the driving forces of modern economies,
and the nature of the people who influence it. Also available from
Cosimo Classics: Lefevre's The Plunderers. American journalist EDWIN
LEFEVRE (1871-1943) also authored the short fiction collected in Wall
Street Stories (1901), the novel Sampson Rock of Wall Street (1906), and
the based-on-fact Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923).