Cyrus Ott

Cyrus Ott is a business man who has built an empire out of nothing and created the Ott Group. Cyrus owns a great deal of real estate and various businesses through the Ott Group and has become a very wealthy man. When Cyrus is in his late fifties, he travels to Rome and proposes creating an international and English-speaking newspaper with an old friend, Betty, and her husband, Leo. While Cyrus will be the publisher, Betty and Leo will run the paper. Cyrus never explains to anyone why he wants to begin a newspaper, which is an industry he has never shown interest in before. He also does not explain why he wants to do it in Rome when his wife and child are in Atlanta.

Cyrus helps run the paper for several years until cancer finally ends his life. Over those years, Cyrus spends a great...