'The Financier' is the first book of Theodore Dreiser's famous 'Trilogy of Desire', based on the biography of American railway tycoon Charles Yerkes.

The main character, Frank Cowperwood, became rich in just a few days. Largely thanks to his amazing intuition. At first, he appears to us as an ordinary young man from a small provincial town. But step by step, Dreiser shows how the surrounding environment shapes in Frank the psychology of a merchant and stock market player. He enters the world of luxury and big money, finds himself in the whirlwind of the largest financial operations, moves in the society of the best dealers of his time. Gradually, the ambitious youth turns into an unprincipled, domineering, and profit-hungry millionaire.