Chapters 28: The War
The financial world held its breath. For weeks, a quiet, surgical terror descended upon the Moreau empire. It wasn't a hostile takeover bid or a public smear campaign. It was a deconstruction.
Tom Blackthorn, operating from the wreckage of his penthouse study, became a ghost in the machine of global finance. Leveraging every clandestine connection, every ounce of fear and respect his name still commanded, he orchestrated a collapse so meticulous it was beautiful in its cruelty.
First, liquidity vanished. Loans called in by mysterious, newly-formed trusts. Key investors, spooked by impeccably-timed anonymous briefings about Moreau's fraudulent accounting (courtesy of Luna's files, which Tom had quietly acquired), pulled their capital. Credit lines evaporated overnigh
