In Trieste, every border has moved. The money never did.
An ownership trace should end with a name. This one ends with a warning.
Forensic financial analyst Mira Lah is tracing the owner of a waterfront company in Trieste when she finds a structure no modern firm should possess: shell companies nested inside a forty-year-old financial design, with records disappearing as she opens them.
At its centre is a single word—Burja—the same word her grandmother once used when speaking of the dead.
The trail leads to 1948, when Trieste was a disputed Free Territory and borders were being redrawn by people who understood that money could outlive every flag. What they built never vanished. It waited.
Now the system is moving again, and Mira’s family history may be the key that gives it power. To expose it, she must determine whether she is dismantling the network—or carrying out the purpose for which it was designed.
The Free Territory begins The Bora Protocol, a connected five-book series of literary espionage, financial intrigue and historical suspense. Expect a measured, atmospheric thriller driven by investigation, moral ambiguity and buried European history rather than nonstop action.
