Next time you go to your favorite coffee shop and you have money in your wallet to pay for a latte, pick the oldest looking note (if you''re lucky enough to have several) and wonder for a second which hands have touched it, at the bottom of which pockets it''s been before you hand it to your lovely barista, and wonder which hands will touch it in the future . . . Just wonder for a second, before you take your change and put it in your wallet.

Our stories begin with an obscenely rich man pushed by very high ambitions . . .