PREFACE The illusion of order is the first thing a street kid learns to shatter. To the world, the global financial system is governed by a clean, predictable line of succession—fortunes built on legacy, corporate empires handed down from king to prince. In the golden spires of Folio, the name Bean is synonymous with God. They own the sky; they own the dirt. But wealth cannot anchor a soul when the wind of chaos blows through a crowded airport terminal. City Riot is not merely a story of a lost boy reclaiming a crown of billions. It is a violent exploration of nurture versus nature. What happens when a child engineered with a flawless, god-like intellect of a 300 IQ is dropped into the gutters? When his cradle isn't a silk sheet, but the bruised knuckles of a dying con artist? Power isn’t given. It is forged in the dirt, sharpened by survival, and unleashed when the past and the present violently collide on the streets. This is the chronicle of Raphael Bean. The city belongs to his family, but the riot belongs to him.