The Last Days of Night

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America  from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and author of The SherlockianSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNENew York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? The task facing Cravath is truly daunting  win. And the stakes are immense: the winner of the case will illuminate America. In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, hell find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem . . .Praise for The Last Days of Night Moore weaves a complex web . . . He conjures Gilded Age New York City so vividly, it feels like only yesterday Entertainment Weekly A model of superior historical fiction . . . Graham Moore digs deep into long-forgotten facts to give us an exciting, sometimes astonishing story of two geniuses locked in a brutal battle to change the world. . .[A] brilliant journey into the past The Washington Post Mesmerizing, clever, and absolutely crackling . . . a beautifully researched, endlessly entertaining novel that will leave you buzzing Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl   Part legal thriller, part tour of a magical time the age of wonder and once youve finished it, youll find it hard to return to the world of now Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City

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