The Baron of Vienna

by Lexci

A brother finds his sister dead, apparently from a drug overdose. He believes otherwise and takes it upon himself to find out what really happened to his sister by assimilating himself into the underground.

I was the one who found her.

They left her body in the parking lot of the local bar, the White Rabbit.

The police told me she died of an overdose, that high amounts of heroin and cocaine were found in her system, also known as a speedball.

I believed otherwise.

Cassandra Haven was murdered at 18 years old.

My name is Brendan Haven, Cassandra was my younger sister. I'm 23 years old.

At the age of 20, I lost my father to hepatitis C. My mother left us when I was 9, Cassandra had just turned 4. We lived in the small town of Mestre for most of our lives until my father passed away. Several months after his funeral, we decided to leave the memories behind and move up north to where I currently reside.

Vienna. The name alone promises a town of great opportunity, and in a way it was. The Vienna police thought they ruled the town with an iron fist, in truth, it was the underground that ran the show.

The drug dealers, the pimps, the prostitutes, the black market salesmen, all had a section of the city that was theirs, all had their hands on a large portion of the city's income. Although they were the kings and queens of Vienna, they were doomed to fall.