Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich

by Thomas Levenson

The ubiquitous Thomas Neale was a better pitchman than the more sober Paterson. He was a gambler to his core, from his days of chasing sunken treasure through his role as the king’s groom porter, in effect the court’s gaming floor boss.