Reading playlist Mile High
The empire was built in the dark, and everything that came after was just learning to live in it.
Artists and music for this book
Duke Ellington
Miles Davis
Bernard Herrmann
Why this music
The music stays in the world where the book was born — speakeasy jazz, big band noir, and cool late-night brass — because Condon's corruption has a seductive elegance that cheap darkness would betray. It moves from the intoxicating swing of the rise to the slower, heavier pulse of what power costs, growing quieter and more dissonant as the rot sets in.