Marcus’s sentence was thirty-six months.

Mine had ended years earlier, the day I stopped counting.

Chapter 19 — The Rebuilt Foundation

The rescue of the legitimate parts of Marcus’s company had been one of the most complex restructurings of my career, and one of the most satisfying.

When Rhodes Capital stepped in during the bankruptcy, the company’s reputation was in ruins.

Lenders were fleeing, clients were threatening lawsuits, and nearly ninety engineers and analysts were days from losing their livelihoods for a crime they had no part in.

Marcus had treated his company as a piggy bank for tuxedos and luxury cars and offshore favors, and had forgotten, entirely, the real people underneath his fraud.