The Olympus Group

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Perry Nakamura has always been the problem employee — three internships terminated in two years, a diagnosis of ADHD that his supervisors call 'a liability,' and a reading disorder that makes financial reports look like abstract art. When a prestigious summer placement lands him at Olympus Capital Group, the most powerful and secretive investment dynasty on Wall Street, he assumes it's a clerical error. His supervisor, a sharp-tongued woman named Anna Chase, makes it clear she agrees. But on his first week, Perry watches the head of risk management — a woman he is certain tried to have him fired — dissolve into a column of sea-foam in the middle of a board meeting. No one else seems to notice. His childhood friend Griffin, who works in building security and walks with a subtle limp, finally tells him the truth: Perry is the unacknowledged son of Neptune Nakamura, the firm's elusive maritime investment division chief — and one of the twelve founding partners who are not entirely human. Olympus Capital is a dynasty built by gods wearing bespoke suits, and the family's internal war is about to become Perry's problem. The firm's most valuable asset — a controlling interest that grants dominion over global markets, referred to internally as 'the Lightning Stake' — has gone missing. The chairman, Zeus Calloway, a silver-haired patriarch with the temperament of a thunderstorm, suspects Neptune. Perry has seventy-two hours before a shareholder vote triggers a succession war that will collapse the global economy. Navigating hostile board members, labyrinthine corporate structures, and a brilliant but treacherous senior analyst named Luke who is feeding intelligence to a rival conglomerate called the Titan Fund, Perry must recover the stake, clear his father's name, and survive his first performance review.