This is where you set up the world: who we are following, what is at stake, and why this story had to be told.
A couple of short paragraphs here give visitors a taste of the tone – fast, tense, human – without giving the whole game away.
Here you can expand: who pulls the strings, who is caught in the middle, how far certain people will go when money and survival are on the line.
This is where you bring in atmosphere, conflict and a sense of momentum – the feeling that once the reader starts, they won’t want to put it down.