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The Chesapeake Syndicate Midnight on Pratt Street
Paperback
Series: The Chesapeake Syndicate, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 18 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.26 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Baltimore. 1920.
Prohibition didn't dry up the harbor.
It changed who controlled it.
When liquor is outlawed overnight, dockworker Thomas Red Callahan sees what others don't: the city won't stop drinking - it will just drink differently. What begins as a quiet rerouting of three crates becomes the foundation of a growing criminal enterprise along Pratt Street.
But Baltimore is not Chicago.
Power here isn't loud.
It's negotiated.
As rival syndicates in Canton tighten their grip and City Hall demands its percentage, the Callahans find themselves pulled into a web of political manipulation, harbor inspections, and federal scrutiny. When a trusted dockworker vanishes and later surfaces in the river, it becomes clear the war isn't about rum.
It's about information.
Red believes in balance.
His son Michael believes in expansion.
His daughter Nell understands leverage.
As public stability masks private fracture, the family must decide what kind of empire they are building - and what it will cost to hold it.
In a city where corruption wears a suit and violence leaves no witnesses, survival depends on who controls the narrative.
The Chesapeake Syndicate has begun.
And Baltimore is watching.
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