Whiskey Empires

Hollywood, 1929—a glittering cesspool where jazz drowns out the gunfire and cigar smoke chokes the truth. John Worthington reigns over this grimy empire, his speakeasies and pawnshops a tangled net of blood money and backroom bribes. Every glass clinks with danger, every deal's a razor's edge—he's the devil in a tailored suit, weaving a plan too vast to unravel.

Audrey Miller stumbles in, a wide-eyed ingénue with a hunger that outshines her small-town dust. She's caught in John's web, a diam...