"Shark," "Inflation profiteer," "Financial Jew": The magnate Camillo Castiglioni, born in 1879 in Trieste, has become associated with many negative stereotypes. As a young man, he is passionate about everything that rolls and flies: he makes a career in the automotive industry, takes a balloon ride with Ferdinand Porsche around Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral, and becomes a major supplier to the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry. After 1918, he assembles an international corporate empire and spectacularly goes bankrupt. He survives World War II in a hideout in San Marino. Reinhard Schlüter skillfully narrates this biography, which offers fascinating insights into the world of business and finance in the 20th century.