Lady Pizza and the Kimbap Cup

By Lucia Bang

The greatest gamble is betting on a sure thing that was engineered to fail.

Declan Shaw, a disgraced Australian professor with a doctorate in philosophy and the instincts of a grifter, sees the Korean horse racing circuit as the "last unregulated financial instrument". His masterpiece is the Kimbap Cup Conspiracy, a plot to rig an impossible win by inflating the odds of an utterly inept mare named Lady Pizza.

With the aid of Liam "The Chemist" O'Connell -a master of undetectable performance enhancers-Lady Pizza is transformed from a stable joke into a "beautiful, fraudulent chaos". The plan works: she wins at astronomical odds.

But the victory attracts the lethal attention of Li Wei, a ruthless Chinese-Korean tycoon and manager of a powerful criminal conglomerate. Li Wei doesn't care about the money; he cares that Declan's "unanticipated anomaly" is disrupting the organized, predictable chaos that sustains his true empire.

Caught between Li Wei's "Geometry of Control" and the unrelenting financial-crime investigation of Inspector Income, the scheme unravels. A desperate stable master, Bae, betrays the Chemist, leading to a brutal murder in Stable 21.

The race for the finish line is over, but the game of survival has just begun. Declan thought he was the player, but he was only the prize, learning the hard way that in the underworld of chance, "the price is often higher than you can imagine".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2G289SG
• ISBN13: 9798274513111
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"