For the first time in Russian - a new novel by the author of the intellectual bestsellers "Conspiracy of Papers" and "Corruption Fair", already beloved by Russian readers. However, "The Coffee Merchant" tells not about the London adventures of Benjamin Weaver, but about the Amsterdam ones of his grandfather. Miguel Lienzo is a successful merchant and stock exchange operator. Or rather, he was successful until he got involved in an adventure with Brazilian sugar that ruined him. Now he is forced to live with his brother, feed his creditors breakfast and dream of a new grandiose deal that will immediately improve his financial situation and make him famous throughout the Dutch capital. When the cheerful widow Gertrud Damhuis invites him to start trading a new exotic product - coffee beans, he sees in this exactly the chance he dreamed of. All that's left to do is to plan stock exchange operations of an unprecedented scale throughout Europe, fool the largest financial tycoons in Amsterdam, whose knowledge of Miguel's secret plans borders on the supernatural, and find the sender of the mysterious threatening notes, who is ready to move from threats to action.