Introduction to the work "White City, Black Blood"
1900, Chicago. Fergus O'Rourke spent forty years building a dark empire, but before he died, he forged the empire into 28 medals. Five gold medals were handed over to the hands of the five sons, and the sixth medal was buried with him in the ground. This missing gold medal became a noose hanging on the necks of all successors.
After twenty years of prosperity, the empire swelled in the hands of the five brothers, but cracks grew on the back of the medal. Until the Great Depression hit like an avalanche in 1929, the conservative eldest son and the innovative second son were at odds with each other, their cronies turned against each other, and blood was shed. The shrewdest third child was schizophrenic due to the collapse of his drug empire. He heard his father's voice in his auditory hallucinations: "Purify everything."
In the end, the fire that burned down the century-old ancestral home was not caused by the enemy. It was one of them who was holding the lighter left by his father.
When the imperial throne is in the name of father's love, inheritance becomes the most elegant curse. Open this book and witness how one family, after seizing half of Chicago, aimed their most accurate blades at each other's hearts, until all the glory turned into ashes and legends in "White City, Black Blood".
