Controlled Burn

By Zhiyong Tan

A coworking empire. A hundred-billion-dollar fund. A kingdom's fortune. And one barefoot founder at the center of it all.

There are two stories about Ari Halevy.

In the first, an immigrant with nothing but a gift for making people believe builds the most valuable private company on earth, and then burns it down in front of the whole world.

In the second, an intelligence analyst nobody listened to finds a man already built to burn, and aims a rival power's fortune into a trap shaped like a company.

Over nine years, a forensic accountant, a financial reporter, and a Treasury investigator will each come to hold a piece of the truth, and discover it was built to be knowable and unprovable at the same time.

Both stories are true. The question no one will ever settle is not whether Ari Halevy was guilty.

It is whether he knew.

For readers of Hern n D az's Trust and the novels of Robert Harris.

This is a work of fiction. See the author's note.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMMBQPW7
• ISBN13: 9798178592908
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"