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There are debts that cannot be repaid with money, but must be settled with lives.

Luc "Scarface" – a notorious gangster specializing in debt collection, a man with a criminal record and a reckless lifestyle in the underworld. But when the illegal lending networks were cracked down on, he fell into destitution, so destitute that he couldn't even afford a pack of cigarettes.

On a bitterly cold winter night on the banks of the Red River, greed and despair led Luc astray when he stumbled upon the body of a man in an expensive suit washed ashore by the waves. Searching the unidentified corpse, he found a bizarre, crocodile-leather bound notebook with copper trim, containing a list of hundreds of debtors – notorious tycoons and business owners – owing hundreds of billions of dong.

Believing this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change his life from a recently defunct loan sharking ring, Luc coldly pushed the corpse back into the raging river, transforming himself into the "heir" to the ledger and beginning his journey of knocking on the doors of luxurious villas.

His first target – a powerful steel corporation director. However, contrary to the threats and brawls Luc had prepared, the tycoon, upon seeing the ledger, was so terrified that he knelt down, begged for his life, and frantically transferred half a billion dong as "ransom."

Having received such a huge sum of money so easily, Luc indulged in the illusion of wealth and power. But he couldn't have imagined that the list wasn't just an ordinary financial debt ledger, but a dark pact with forces beyond his comprehension. The money he just received wasn't to pay off his debt, but the price to buy his life – and the one who collected the debt has now become the target on this deadly chessboard.

"The Book of the Drowned" is a thrilling detective and horror novel with elements of supernatural suspense, drawing readers into a suffocating vortex of insatiable greed, a brutal underworld, and inescapable laws of karma.

Can Luc extricate himself from this sinister quagmire before the next group of debtors drags him down to the bottom of the cold Red River?