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Professional wrestling meets Empire in a trilogy that RollingStone.com called "a one-of a kind literary offering for die-hard wrestling fans."New York City, 1969. Danno Garland is a middling member of the National Wrestling Council, a secretive syndicate of pro-wrestling promoters. He's kept his head down for fifteen years, but now he's found a new heavyweight champion, Babu, and plans to use him to build a wrestling empire. Blocked, though, by the NWC, Danno makes a deal with Florida boss Proctor King to ensure Danno's man will be the next title holder. In exchange, the belt will go to Proctor's son, Gilbert, once he's out of prison in a couple of years.But things don't go according to plan, and now Danno is standing in a sold-out Shea Stadium on the night of biggest wrestling card of all time, and neither Babu nor Gilbert has shown up.