Empire of Shadows
After the 2008 financial crisis, Italian-American dropout Ethan Russo rises from poverty and his father's blood debt in Brooklyn. With ruthless judgment, street law, and Wall Street leverage, he builds a multiethnic inner circle, destroys the Moretti Family, founds Russo Capital, and turns underworld order, financial engineering, media, and political access into an unseen empire while fighting the FBI, politicians, coastal financiers, casino alliances, and international powers. Twenty years later, a young reporter investigates the shadow behind New York's history and discovers that the truth is only the visible tip.
Synopsis
After the 2008 financial crisis, Italian-American dropout Ethan Russo rises from poverty and his father's blood debt in Brooklyn. With ruthless judgment, street law, and Wall Street leverage, he builds a multiethnic inner circle, destroys the Moretti Family, founds Russo Capital, and turns underworld order, financial engineering, media, and political access into an unseen empire while fighting the FBI, politicians, coastal financiers, casino alliances, and international powers. Twenty years later, a young reporter investigates the shadow behind New York's history and discovers that the truth is only the visible tip.