The acclaimed author of Finn "digs down to the bones of a classic
and creates must-read modern literature" (Charles Frazier, New York
Times bestselling author) with this "clever riff" (The Washington
Post) on Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol that explores of the
relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. "Marley was
dead, to begin with," Charles Dickens tells us at the beginning of
A Christmas Carol. But in Jon Clinch's "masterly" (The New York
Times Book Review) novel, Jacob Marley, business partner to
Ebenezer Scrooge, is very much alive: a rapacious and cunning boy
who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be
both the making and the undoing of Scrooge. They meet as youths in
the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys, where
Marley begins their twisted friendship by initiating the innocent
Scrooge into the art of extortion. Years later, in the dank heart
of London, their shared ambition manifests itself in a fledgling
shipping empire. Between Marley's genius for deception and
Scrooge's brilliance with numbers, they amass a considerable
fortune of dubious legality, all rooted in a pitiless commitment to
the soon-to-be-outlawed slave trade. As Marley toys with the
affections of Scrooge's sister, Fan, Scrooge falls under the spell
of Fan's best friend, Belle Fairchild. Now, for the first time,
Scrooge and Marley find themselves at odds. With their business
interests inextricably bound together and instincts for secrecy and
greed bred in their very bones, the two men engage in a shadowy war
of deception, forged documents, theft, and cold-blooded murder.
Marley and Scrooge are destined to clash in an unforgettable
reckoning that will echo into the future and set the stage for
Marley's ghostly return. "Read through to the last page of this
brilliant book, and I promise you that you will have a permanently
changed view, not just of Dickens's world, but of the world we live
in today" (Elizabeth Letts, New York Times bestselling author).
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