Somewhere between the glamorous old days and the current coincidences emerged The Chronicles of Neptuna, a novel where historical fiction, romance and political intrigues merged into a book.

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Neptuna had a business plan that required extreme efforts from all her employees, regardless of status or hierarchy, but mostly required their soul. Besides working hard for Neptuna, Alexis, Michael, and Gabriel were spending many Saturday nights at Elysee. The exclusive nightclub was full of wealthy visitors: entrepreneurs, shipping moguls, and many students, mostly of Greek descent. Alexis had been visiting the club from a very young age, and later he introduced his partners to the oddities of the nightclub at which they finally became regular customers.

Saturday nights had an exotic aura under the spell of Greek bouzouki and the bass voices of various singers, whose repertoire ranged from lament songs to festive, accompanied with thousands of pieces of broken plates, and fresh carnations that were thrown on the floor in tow. After the second bottle of liquor, it was unimportant if you were a rich student or a mogul, and many strange unions emerged. The odds were that just before the sunrise, many business deals had been sealed with a handshake and a cigar, and quite often entailed a romance.

Michael and Gabriel frequently accompanied Alexis at Elysee, and not because they liked it, but because they were meeting people with whom they ended up having deals with, and their businesses flourished. Alexis arranged for the best table in the club in the company of shipping builders and other associates working in the industry. Usually, they were ending up with a table hosting four or five unknown people, and mostly men, as women at that time, were rarely working in the shipping business unless they were lawyers like Mary or relatives like Isadore.

Michael would soon graduate from the London School of Economics and would be officially a lawyer, but his plans were not in the courtroom, they were in Neptuna, with Alexis and Gabriel, who unlike him had never stepped into a University, but had studied the industry from the inside. Alexis was an Elysee graduate.

Disclaimer: This book is a complete work of fiction. Any names, characters, businesses, organisations, places, events or incidents, portrayed in this book are either products of the writer’s imagination or used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual events or incidents, businesses, organisations, places, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.