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Alexander Rise of a King
Paperback
Publisher: Ian McEwan
Published: May 20 2026
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Alexander King has spent his life watching powerful men shape the world from behind glass offices, private meetings, and carefully controlled systems. At university, ambition still looks clean - degrees, influence, connections, success. But after the sudden death of his father, Alexander is pulled into a corporate empire already beginning to fracture beneath the surface.
Inside the company, decisions are slowing, alliances are shifting, and unseen hands are quietly redirecting power. What first appears to be financial instability soon reveals something far more dangerous: a network of influence operating behind the structures everyone else mistakes for control.
As Alexander fights to understand the forces surrounding him, he is drawn deeper into a world where perception matters more than truth, loyalty has a price, and weakness is detected instantly. Every conversation becomes a negotiation. Every relationship carries hidden weight. And every move he makes is being watched by people who already understand the rules of power far better than he does.
But Alexander is learning quickly.
Cold, intelligent, and psychologically charged, Alexander: Rise of a King is a modern political-corporate thriller about ambition, elite systems, succession, manipulation, and the dangerous pursuit of control in a world governed by invisible power.
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