New York quakes - Apologetic millionaires - End times - The second-most mysterious telegram that Paul had ever received - Teatime at the Cravath household - Fisk - At the foot of Beinn Bhreagh - The reverse salient - Part Iii: Solutions. The morning after - The hatchet man in Buffalo - The execution of William Kemmler - When London trembles. Edison would disagree - The empire of invention - Associate attorneys - Miss Huntington grants an interview - A new year’s grotesque - A midnight theft - Inventions already invented - The chair - The mystery of the filaments - The deposition of Thomas Edison - Fail, fail, and fail again - The prodigal Cravath returns - All happy families.

Powerful friends - Two walks along the east river - A frightful accusation - Dead ends and false leads - The Metropolitan Opera House - Questions yet unanswered - Nightly terrors at number 4 Gramercy Park - Mr.

Westinghouse - Intrigue at Carter, Hughes & Cravath - A visit to number 4 Gramercy Park - The Players’ Club - Nikola Tesla’s laboratory of wonders - Instability in the system - Part II: Reverse salient. Tesla has something he would not like to show you - Alternating current - A dash to the door - A lobster dinner at Delmonico’s - Money - A difficult negotiation - Networks - One step forward, two steps back - A famous visitor - Fathers and sons - Death in the wires - The difference of opinion between Mr. 223,898 - Locusts - Rivalries - The ghost of Nikola Tesla - Mr. The last days of night - The Wizard of Menlo Park - Prodigies - A suggestion of compromise - The curious case of U.S. When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception

The last days of night a novel