The Three Braided Threads: A Novel of Blood, Land, and Belonging

"Leo Valli closes positions. He never expected one of them to be himself."In the glass towers of Milan, Leo Valli turns other people's ruin into profit - a distressed-asset financier, surgical and unsentimental. Then a phone call from the far south of Chile pulls the ground out from under him. The father who abandoned him is dead, and has left him a valley in Patagonia.There's a catch. The inheritance is shared with Nahuel, a half-brother Leo never knew he had - Mapuche, and rooted in the very land Leo intends to sell. And a hydroelectric multinational is already circling the valley, its reservoir poised to drown everything Nahuel calls home.Leo came to liquidate an asset. Instead he finds himself in a war fought with lawyers and ancestral memory, with something priceless buried in the belly of a volcano - and a brother who might be the only person capable of teaching him who he is.Three threads run through this novel: the red of rage, the black of belonging, the white of the ties that bind. As they braid together, Leo must decide whether a man is worth more than his balance sheet - and whether the name he was born with is the one he was meant to carry.