# The Wealth of Shadows - Paperback

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by **Graham Moore** (Author)

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A thriller of a different kind--with an unlikely band of economists and bureaucrats working in the shadows to save the world."--Charles Frazier, _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Cold Mountain_**

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy in this thrilling novel based on a true story, from the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of _The Imitation Game_ and bestselling author of _The Last Days of Night_.

**This Random House Book Club edition includes an interview with the author, historical photographs, and a discussion guide.**

1939\. Ansel Luxford has everything a person could want--a comfortable career, a brilliant spouse, a beautiful new baby. But he is obsessed by a belief that Europe is on the precipice of a war that will grow to consume the world. The United States is officially proclaiming neutrality in any foreign conflict, but when Ansel is offered an opportunity to move to Washington, D.C., to join a clandestine project within the Treasury Department that is working to undermine Nazi Germany, he uproots his family overnight and takes on the challenge of a lifetime.

How can they defeat the enemy without firing a bullet?

To thwart the Nazis, Ansel and his team invent a powerful new theater of battle: economic warfare. Money is a dangerous weapon, and Ansel's efforts will plunge him into a world full of peril and deceit. He will crisscross the globe to broker backroom deals, undertake daring heists, and spar with titans of industry like J.P. Morgan and the century's greatest economic mind, Britain's John Maynard Keynes. When Ansel's wife takes a job with the FBI to hunt for spies within the government, the need for subterfuge extends to the home front. And Ansel discovers that he might be closer to those spies than he could ever imagine.

_The Wealth of Shadows_ is a mind-expanding historical novel about the mysterious powers of money, the lies worth telling to defeat evil, and a hidden war that shaped the modern world.

### Author Biography

**Graham Moore** is the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _The Holdout, The Last Days of Night,_ and _The Sherlockian;_ and the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of _The Imitation Game_, for which he also won a Writers Guild of America Award; and director and co-writer of _The Outfit_, which was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. Moore was born in Chicago, received a B.A. in religious history from Columbia University. He lives in Los Angeles.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** May 13, 2025

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** 20th Century, Books, Fiction, Historical, Price Written on Book, Thrillers

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