![]() ![]() A devastating lab fire! An inexplicable disappearance! A beautiful diva with a mysterious past! An attempted murder! An electrocuted dog! The characters mug and posture like actors in a silent film with dramatic captions: “She turned her glare to Westinghouse. The key to winning, Cravath decides, is to get Nikola Tesla-the mad scientist to end all mad scientists-to invent a better lightbulb. He tells the story from the point of view of Paul Cravath, the young attorney charged with defending Westinghouse against a potentially devastating patent suit brought by Edison. ![]() In the late 19th century, as Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse began wiring America for electricity, the titans locked horns over which electrical standard would prevail-AC or DC-in a struggle that came to be known as the “War of the Currents.” Novelist ( The Sherlockian, 2010) and screenwriter ( The Imitation Game, 2014) Moore chops up and rearranges a decade’s worth of events, squeezes them into two years, adds a few crimes, and serves the result up in a lively if unsurprising legal thriller. ![]() The great tech innovators of the '90s-that’s the 1890s-posture, plot, and even plan murder in this business book–turned–costume drama. ![]()
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