The Count of Monte Cristo: 2026

By Victor Corvale

In 2014, engineer Edmond Dant s was convicted of causing a catastrophic industrial disaster that killed three people. The evidence looked undeniable. It was also wrong.

Twelve years later, Edmond walks out with a dead man's fortune, a dead man's education in law and finance, and a plan that doesn't involve a gun. He comes back with capital - a seat at the table of the very company built on the lie that destroyed him, and the patience to take it apart from the inside, one document, one debt, one carefully placed truth at a time.

But revenge keeps its own books. Every weapon Edmond uses lands on someone who never asked to be collateral - the woman he once loved, her young daughter, the families of the men who actually died that morning. The closer he gets to justice, the harder it becomes to tell it apart from the damage he's causing.

The Count of Monte Cristo: 2026 reimagines Dumas's classic for the world of hostile takeovers and forensic accounting - where the duels are boardroom votes, the swords are subpoenas, and the real question was never whether Edmond wins.

Does justice still count if you have to hide part of the truth to achieve it?

Some accounts can be settled with money.
Others require the truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HM3WG9DK
• ISBN13: 9798160332628
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.0"