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Before the Don

Dr. N. S. Gorman, Ed.D.

The streetlights on his block went dark six months ago. He arranged it — through the alderman's office, in ordinary language, as a property owner with a concern. That is how he works: through the architecture of the ordinary, the infrastructure of patience. For twelve years, Vincenzo has built and sustained a Chicago organization so precisely engineered that it requires almost no visible force to run. His world has load-bearing walls. Every element is in its place. Mara Amato follows numbers. She was transferred from Minneapolis three years ago, and right now the numbers have led her to a $140,000 discrepancy in the accounts of Aegean Maritime Partners — and from there, to South Halsted. To a second-floor office above a kitchen supply company. To a two-inch gap in a walnut door. Two people who should never occupy the same room. The moment before everything shifts. Before the Don is the prequel novelette to the Sold to the Don Trilogy — begins here.