Title: Final Problem prompted by Michael Poole
Tagline:
One man’s search for justice through a legacy of corruption, betrayal, and laundering leads him into the darkest corners of power — from boardrooms to burial grounds. PLOT OUTLINE
Protagonist:
Daniel Kessler, a 63-year-old former financial analyst with deep family roots in the offshore finance world, returns to his childhood island in the Channel for one final battle. Haunted by the suspicious death of his father — a Rank Xerox whistleblower — and decades of psychological warfare disguised as mental health "support," he is determined to expose a transnational laundering network that connects Canadian banks, offshore shells, the ‘Ndrangheta, and members of royalty.

Part I – The Reluctant Witness
Daniel lives quietly in exile, journaling his story online, framed as an open letter to Ghislaine, the last living symbol of a now-collapsed elite circle. But beneath his calm surface, he's been gathering files, affidavits, and evidence from old school connections, former bank insiders, and one surviving Cantrade whistleblower. A police cordon outside his window triggers him. He begins to suspect that the attempt to gaslight him into institutionalization isn't over — it's accelerating.

Part II – The Cantrade Cipher
Digging into the Cantrade affair, Daniel uncovers that it was not just a rogue laundering operation but a prototype for what's now a global system. The Rothschild trusts, Canadian mega-banks, and the tax havens of the Channel Islands form an axis — protected by corrupted regulators, legacy nobility, and even past NATO officials. A trail of deceased lawyers, disappeared documents, and bought-off psychiatrists lead him back to one man: Frank H. Walker, now an ailing but still powerful figure.

Part III – The Dead Man’s Code
Daniel’s father had left behind a notebook — names, numbers, and phrases in Hebrew and shorthand — and once decrypted, it reveals links to a Swiss vault and a forgotten shell company owned jointly by his father and... Ghislaine's family. Suddenly, Daniel realizes he wasn’t just collateral damage — he was a beneficial owner turned target. The motive for the laundering becomes personal.

Part IV – The Final Problem
A journalist from Tel Aviv, working with the IDF’s cyber intelligence unit, picks up Daniel’s blog and contacts him. She believes that some of the laundered money Daniel tracked might also fund Hezbollah-linked terror operations via Latin American intermediaries. If true, Daniel’s war on the 'Ndrangheta isn’t just financial — it’s geopolitical.

Climax:
Daniel is lured into a setup by the local authorities under the guise of mental health care. With help from a rogue archivist and the journalist, he escapes, just long enough to upload the full evidence package to a blockchain-backed leak site.

Ending:
The fallout is slow. Some arrests. A few resignations. But no revolution. Daniel, meanwhile, disappears. Ghislaine reads the files, now public. In the final scene, we see her in a prison library, reading The Count of Monte Cristo.

Tone & Themes:
Conspiracy meets legacy: Deep systems of power surviving via reinvention.

Grief and betrayal: A son seeking truth for a father killed not for what he knew, but for what he protected.

Isolation vs connection: The protagonist is gaslighted and isolated, but eventually connects the global dots.

Money as weaponry: Laundering isn't just a white-collar crime — it's the lubricant for every war machine.