Yet this young, unknown attorney shares with his famous opponent a compulsion to win at all costs. Edison proves to be a formidable, wily, and dangerous opponent. The task facing Cravath is beyond daunting. To defend himself, Westinghouse makes a surprising choice in his attorney: He hires an untested twenty-six-year-old fresh out of Columbia Law School named Paul Cravath. Thomas Edison has won the race to the patent office and is suing his only remaining rival, George Westinghouse, for the unheard of sum of one billion dollars. The miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The publisher describes it as being “about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. Morgan as well as a young, beautiful opera singer.Like The Imitation Game, this one involves seminal technological geniuses. Spies, risk and danger all align against the young lawyer as he zealously pursues victory and along the way crosses paths with the renowned Nikola Tesla and J.P. This high profile case jettisons him into a world of high society, where adversaries and allies are tricky to determine.
George Westinghouse is being sued by none other than Thomas Edison for infringing on his invention and Paul has the impossible task of proving that claim false. Critical questions arise as more than one inventor feels they're on the verge of innovational history – who receives the glorious credit and irrefutable patent for inventing the lightbulb and who gets to lead the charge and power the nation? Enter Paul Cravath, a young, fresh out of law school lawyer who lands the case of a lifetime. It's 1888 and while gas lamps still throng the streets of an up-and-coming New York City, a new maker of light is on the verge of replacing fire with electricity: the lightbulb. An event of horrific magnitude occurs within the first turn of the page, but since it is witnessed by our protagonist, a valiant and fervent pursuit for justice commences. The Last Days of Night opens, quite literally, with a spark.
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