Book — the Confusion by Neal Stephenson

It hardly seems five minutes ago that Quicksilver was out - and now the next instalment, the Confusion which interleaves two narratives of piracy, diplomacy, economics (if there is a difference between any of those fields of endeavour). As before, if you liked the previous one, you'll like this.

And this time it is made clear that it must be the same Enoch Root...