Overview
Tenacious, novice banker, Rian Reston, rises from a broken family to be bilked out of an immense sum in a small Colorado mountain town. He's fired. Without money, friends or family, he contemplates suicide. At the last moment, he gets menial work on a failing cattle ranch. While there, he meets his mentor, Reggie, who hires Rian.
Unbeknownst to the two, the bank employing them is owned by Scaratucci, a mobster using it to launder money. While working at the bank, Rian meets tree-hugger Missy and her friend, Tablita, a Native American woman and US Senator. Meeting Missy changes everything Rian knows and feels about love.
Then, a long nation-wide power outage hits America. It inspires Rian to seek a solution to the fragile bank payment system, Rian uncovers ancient deep layers of bank deception in plain sight, with bankers pretending to take in deposits they lend in their communities. Scaratucci's bard-quoting hitman is turned loose when Rian learns how to prevent payment pandemonium in predatory banks, as happened in 2008. To carry it out, Rian and Missy start a political movement.
Tablita presents Rian's idea to Congress and his testimony before them, raises his stature in the media's eyes. Following his idea, the legislation threatens to end the mafia's money laundering and banks harming people. Congress and the vacillating President are caught up in the public's protests who are mad as hell. Public protests demand Congress pass the proposed Public Payment Act, creating a secure payment system without private banks. That spark turns Rian's grassroots movement into a raging prairie fire that sweeps the county.
Unbeknownst to the two, the bank employing them is owned by Scaratucci, a mobster using it to launder money. While working at the bank, Rian meets tree-hugger Missy and her friend, Tablita, a Native American woman and US Senator. Meeting Missy changes everything Rian knows and feels about love.
Then, a long nation-wide power outage hits America. It inspires Rian to seek a solution to the fragile bank payment system, Rian uncovers ancient deep layers of bank deception in plain sight, with bankers pretending to take in deposits they lend in their communities. Scaratucci's bard-quoting hitman is turned loose when Rian learns how to prevent payment pandemonium in predatory banks, as happened in 2008. To carry it out, Rian and Missy start a political movement.
Tablita presents Rian's idea to Congress and his testimony before them, raises his stature in the media's eyes. Following his idea, the legislation threatens to end the mafia's money laundering and banks harming people. Congress and the vacillating President are caught up in the public's protests who are mad as hell. Public protests demand Congress pass the proposed Public Payment Act, creating a secure payment system without private banks. That spark turns Rian's grassroots movement into a raging prairie fire that sweeps the county.
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