Plot
Mike Thevis is born into a poor Greek immigrant family and he goes on to build the largest pornography network in America A man of stark contradictions Thevis by the 1970s commandeers a sprawling empire of smut from his base in the puritanical Deep South while simultaneously running a plethora of legitimate businesses with a nearly allfemale executive team Craving respectability he sinks millions into the arts music movies and charities but ultimately is bought down in a noxious web of murder blackmail arson and extortion