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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 Americafrom the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and author of The Sherlockian

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST "?SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE

New 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 historyand a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath fresh out of Columbia Law School takes a case that seems impossible to win. Pauls 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 case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high societythe glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposalprivate spies newspapers in his pocket and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs.?How will he do it?

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

A satisfying romp . . . Takes place against a backdrop rich with period detail . . . Works wonderfully as an entertainment . . . As it charges forward the novel leaves no dot unconnected.Noah Hawley The New York Times Book Review

This captivating historical novel illuminates a fascinating American moment.???People

??A fascinating portrait of American inventors . . . Moore crafts a compelling narrative out of [Paul]?Cravath??s cunning legal maneuvers and [Nikola]?Tesla??s world-changing tinkering?? while a story line on opera singer Agnes Huntington has the mysterious glamour of?The Great Gatsby. . . . Moore weaves a complex web. . . .? He conjures Gilde