TONY NINE-LIVES: THE BANK OF DIAMONDS

**TONY NINE-LIVES: THE BANK OF DIAMONDS** Venice has a bank that doesn't exist. No sign for the public, no accounts for ordinary men. Behind its golden doors sits Tony Capurrone, a black cat in a pinstripe suit they call Tony Nine-Lives, and he moves money for people who can't afford to be seen moving it. His one rule: at his bank, everybody's family. Then a lady in a black hat walks in carrying a fortune in trouble: a single perfect diamond, stolen from the most dangerous crew on the water by her own brother, a man in a purple suit who vanished the same night. The crew wants their stone back. Tony hides it, and the whole city becomes a chase: out the bank doors, through the night streets, into a covered market where fists settle what words couldn't. But the diamond is only the beginning. It is one of nine. The Nine Stones, keys to the rival crew's vault, and whoever holds all nine owns the crew itself. The brother, Grip, is alive, hiding on the docks with a second stone in his pocket. To bring him home, Tony assembles his own crew: Mr. Lightspeed, a consultant with no head and no fear, Whiskers, a cat who never misses, and a tuxedoed stranger who steps out of the smoke calling himself Shadow. Felix Shadow, Agent 003. When the Boss himself walks into the bank and puts a million dollars on the desk for the stones and the brother, Tony pushes the money back. Family is not for sale. War is declared. Business, Tony calls it. Two stones down. Seven to go. And somewhere across the street, a stranger is photographing the bank. *Nine stones. Nine lives. And la banca always collects.* [@barkinghotdog](https://zora.co/@0x93b8db999e44c944a6168f6b7065ff8f5f8e6ed2) [@mr_lightspeed](https://zora.co/@0x78be7e42bc7e131b125178dcc233d54457f456ca) [@deadburn](https://zora.co/@0x51dde2d01fe6ebc914847c82660a66226db9d821) [@diamondgrip](https://zora.co/@0x5c8dca68b0c460b6a7a462ec36c989333d95f64a) [@8bitkid](https://zora.co/@0xe9b96074db017f043e71165ca5b046e57ee1cba2) [@ironwood](https://zora.co/@0x885b00aa42f066d6c3fe944c10b1c6f8dbcdcd43) [@kelleymiller](https://zora.co/@0xbaa0f5efe2b1fc3559f377ec294b799f1ab020a3) [@7evn](https://zora.co/@0x500530060f3c6c8f0c2ccd1b608d7088ba629d37) [@artisticminnow](https://zora.co/@0xd5a7ebcc3b39fa3467b7d4df61ba21a9ad2b12b3) [@creatorfuel](https://zora.co/@0x84cf397171c206f8f6cd6d68065522a329f93439)