Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower

This guide to the Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower opens in a Brooklyn penthouse, where a man was spending half a million dollars that was never his to spend, meant to grease the sale of the very skyscraper beneath you. It traces the debt the South Korean builder fell into by 2013 after pouring more than a billion dollars into these seventy-two floors, and the broker who came calling with a very well-connected name. Look up at the viewing floor near the top, high above where the deal was struck.