Thomas Petri 
Monarchs and Mammon [EPUB ebook] 
The Conquest of Sovereignity

Emerging from the suffocating existence of serfdom at a time when onlt titled nobility held a monopoly on economic opportunity, Monarchs and Mammon explores the rise of a few enterprising individuals that gained more wealth than all the monarchs of Europe. Once maneuvering a king into perpetual debt, they engineered a scheme to ensure for themselves untold wealth.