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King Kong
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781944527471
Publisher: Natural Press
Published: May 5 2025
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Ian Bloom wrote King Kong at 34 across Tokyo, Zürich, Bern, Frankfurt, Paris, and St. Moritz-moving through cities with the calm of a professional and the cold awareness that nothing waits. Built during a period of disciplined private work - holdings, trusts, systems, music - the novel carries that same sealed intensity: heavy, quiet, irreversible.
King Kong isn't an animal story - it's a scale story: what happens when a man's internal engine finally matches the world's weight. Grief becomes acceleration. Desire becomes protocol. Morality becomes a ledger - and the ledger becomes scripture. Set between Hollywood's masquerade and Switzerland's vault-calm, between Tokyo's civil perfection and Paris's cathedral glare, Bloom's antihero-half banker, half cowboy, half ghost - moves through a chain of events that can't be undone: a death call from the past, a funeral staged as ritual, love arriving too late, and encounters that feel like tests administered by invisible institutions.
Bloom's singular proposition is blunt: God and the Devil aren't metaphors - they're counterparties. They negotiate through timing. They collect payment through consequence. And by the end, King Kong becomes a coronation in smoke and steel - the moment the man realizes he isn't being chased by fate. He is fate. A sovereign noir epic. A resurrection manual disguised as a novel. The final question isn't Do you believe? It's: Who's been driving your life - and what did it cost to stay inevitable?
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