Lucas, founder of a top-tier Wall Street hedge fund, always believed he had the perfect family—until the night of a family dinner, when he watched his brother-in-law Carter strike his daughter Lily across the face. Even more devastating, he discovers that his wife Serena has not only spent years covering up her family's physical abuse and psychological manipulation of the girl, but has also secretly funneled millions of dollars into offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands to plug her family's financial black holes. From shock to white-hot fury, Lucas transforms into a cold-blooded god of vengeance. He revokes loan guarantees, freezes offshore accounts, and unites with Wall Street's titans to launch an all-out short-selling assault on his wife's family. Facing the leeches' shameless counterattacks—armed threats, public smear campaigns, and worse—Lucas advances methodically, step by step. At a glittering gala, he uses the most ruthless instruments of capital to tear away their masks of respectability. He sends the abusive uncle and his own wife to federal maximum-security prison and reduces his greedy in-laws to vagrants brawling over a moldy slice of pizza on the streets of Manhattan. In the end, Lucas takes his daughter and leaves the darkness behind, flying toward a world of freedom.
