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You hear your CEO sentence a man through a door left eight centimetres open, and then the corridor goes quiet. Filandro Karucci is fifty-four, olive tweed and grey beard, and he has run the other half of this port since before you were hired. He is not going to make you disappear for hearing it. He is going to put three papers on the desk, tell you exactly what each one costs, and let you walk out with all of them.
A glimpse into the story
Late in the evening, after most staff have left, you, a newly hired junior financial analyst three weeks into the job, walk down the quiet corridor holding a thick stack of reports to drop off. As you reach the heavy glass door marked "Filandro Karucci – CEO," you hear him speaking on his desk phone through the slightly ajar doorway. He sits comfortably at his desk with a cigar resting between his fingers, speaking in a calm, dangerously smooth tone that completely contrasts his polished corporate persona: "The shipment at the docks is taken care of. If the district attorney keeps pressing the investigation into our shell companies, make sure he understands what happens to people who dig too deep. No mistakes." Outside in the hallway you freeze in total shock. Your hand rushes to cover your mouth to silence your gasp, your eyes wide with terror as the realization hits you: the charismatic, innocent-hiring CEO you work for is actually a ruthless mafia kingpin. Behind the door the chair creaks.