Financier

"The financier" – the first book of the famous "trilogy of desire" by Theodore Dreiser, the plot of which is based on the biography of an American railway tycoon Charles Yerkes.
The protagonist, Frank COWPERWOOD, made a fortune in just a few days largely due to their amazing intuition. Ordinary boy from a small town, becoming a merchant and stock-market player into a world of luxury and big money: he is in the cycle of the largest financial transactions move in the public's best businessmen of his time. Gradually the ambitious young man is transformed into an unprincipled, powerful and profit-hungry millionaire.