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A financial thriller that depicts a deliberate market assault by a powerful broker on an ill-omened day, unleashing panic across the Stock Exchange. Narrated by a senior partner of a longstanding banking house, the story follows urgent efforts on the trading floor to halt cascading losses, the broker’s volatile moods and family ties, and the tactical maneuvers used to blunt ruin. Scenes shift between tense market action, personal recollection, and boardroom strategy, examining ambition, moral responsibility, speculative excess, and the human and institutional costs of unchecked finance.

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Title: Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel

Author: Thomas William Lawson

Illustrator: Sigismond de Ivanowski

Release date: August 31, 2005 [eBook #12345]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: Copyright, 1906, . Copyright, . Published, February,, 1907

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRIDAY, THE THIRTEENTH: A NOVEL ***

Friday, the Thirteenth

A Novel by

Thomas W. Lawson

Frontispiece in colour by Sigismond de Ivanowski

1907

Copyright, 1906, 1907.
Copyright, 1907.
Published, February, 1907


To Her

I Dedicate This Book

All That Is Good In This Little Waif, Which Is Very
Dear To Me, I Know A Just God Will Place To
Her Credit. All That Is Mean And Low And
Human Could Never Have Been Birthed
Had She Been Nigh To Guide An
Ever Wayward Pen.

The Author.

The Nest, Dreamwold,
August, 1906.


Table of Contents

Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.