Graham Moore - Az night fénye

1888, New York. Although the streets are still dimly lit by gas lamps at night, the miracle of electric light is already in the making. The person who will be the first to light up entire cities can win a huge fortune, and the competition is very fierce. Paul Cravath, an inexperienced lawyer fresh out of Columbia University, unexpectedly finds himself in the middle of these battles: George Westinghouse entrusts him with an unwinnable case. Westinghouse is in a lawsuit with Thomas Edison, the stake is one billion dollars, and the question is who invented the light bulb and who has the right to conquer the whole country with it?

Thanks to the case, Paul gains insight into the upper echelons of society - the rag-tag parties, the noble mansions of Gramercy Park, and the dark businesses behind closed doors. Edison is a cunning and dangerous opponent, he runs his own spy network, has the newspapers in his pocket and is supported by J.P. Morgan himself. On the other hand, Westinghouse has almost nothing but his convictions: together with Paul, they expect a miracle from a Serbian scientist named Nikola Tesla, who speaks the language rather poorly and behaves strangely in society. As the young lawyer digs deeper into the case and takes more and more risks, he realizes that everyone involved has their own little games and no one is what they seem. And this can result in particularly great dangers for the entire country.

The historical novel by Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Code Game, is based on actual events, and often in its most breathtaking scenes there is not even an iota of fiction. The Light of the Night became a huge bestseller not only by chance: it not only presents the most important moments of the Great Power War in an unputdownable style, but also paints an astonishing picture of the creation of an America that exists to this day in full force.