If you're one of those readers who always finds themselves rooting for the bad guy, you'll relish every sentence of Guy Newell Boothby's A Bid for Fortune. Dr. Nikola is a brilliant master criminal who is on a lifelong quest to achieve immortality — and to accumulate as much power and wealth as he can along the way. Making copious use of his formidable occult powers, Nikola will stop at nothing to achieve his nefarious ends.