THE ACCOUNTANT OF SHADOWS
Marco Bellanti has spent his life in the shadows, keeping the books clean for Don Giacomo Esposito’s crime family. He doesn’t carry a gun, doesn’t make threats—his power lies in numbers. But when a ledger containing the names of judges, cops, and politicians disappears, Marco is forced into a deadly game of loyalty and betrayal.
As rival factions circle and Giacomo’s paranoia grows, Marco discovers old debts that connect to the murder of his younger brother years earlier. His search for the ledger draws the attention of Rosa Carbone, the ambitious daughter of a rival boss who tempts him with freedom, and Elena Moretti, a fearless journalist who offers him truth instead of blood.
But truth has a price. Ambushes, betrayals, and executions follow Marco wherever he turns, until the final confrontation in an abandoned warehouse, where both families collide in a storm of bullets. With the ledger finally in his hands, Marco realizes it is not salvation, but a curse.
Instead of seizing power, he burns the ledger—destroying the evidence that could have toppled the city’s most powerful men. In the chaos, Rosa is killed, Giacomo’s empire shatters, and Marco walks away alive but hollow, knowing that in this world, debts are never erased, only rewritten in blood.