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The Concrete Horizon: A Novel of Hunger, Power, and the Price of the American Dream
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He arrived with a degree, a dream, and eight thousand yen worth of hope. Six months later, he's lying in the rain on Ludlow Street with a stranger's boot print bruised into his ribs - and six dollars to his name.
Kenji Aoyama came to America to build a life. What he found was a machine that only rewards those willing to feed it.
From a mattress on the floor above a Chinatown nail salon to a corner office thirty floors above Manhattan, Kenji's rise through the ruthless world of high finance is fast, brutal, and paid for in currency he never agreed to spend: a colleague's career, a dying company's pension fund, a friendship built on a lie he told himself was truth.
Every door that opens for him closes on someone else.
The Concrete Horizon is a gripping, morally unflinching novel about what it actually costs to climb - and whether a man who has learned to survive by taking can ever learn, in time, to give something back. Spanning eight years and two coasts, from a church basement soup kitchen to a hostile corporate takeover that ends a company built by one family's hands, this is a story about ambition without a floor, and the terrible arithmetic of a life spent looking only up.
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