The private salon of the historic Atlantic Hotel Kempinski in Hamburg overlooked the serene, mist-covered waters of the Outer Alster Lake. At four o'clock that afternoon, a private motorcade arrived at the hotel entrance, carrying Nikos Costas, the sixty-two-year-old sovereign titan of Greek maritime commerce. Costas was a formidable figure in global trade—a bronze-skinned, silver-haired shipping billionaire whose family controlled eighty dry-bulk carriers and oil tankers operating between Piraeus, Singapore,…
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