The Sovereign's Fall

Arthur Hale, the son of a washerwoman in the industrial squalor of New Haven, claws his way from a tenement to the marbled corridors of power in the Atlantic Federation. Armed with a discovered legal doctrine that treats the state as a private corporation, he becomes the architect of vast financial frauds and the darling of a corrupt elite. But as he stands on the precipice of becoming Attorney General, a trivial lawsuit filed by a penniless clerk, Samuel O'Neill, threatens to unravel the entire edifice of lies, murder, and stolen destiny.