Dusan Cinkota

This fantasy adventure series is set in the 7th Century and follows the lives of the occupants of the Carpathian basin, at the time before the union of Slav tribes. The plot takes place at the neighboring forts Big table and Furnau, which need each other for trade but the power interests and the pressure from the incoming Avar marauders will put them into conflict. (imdb)

In the 1990s post-communist Slovakia, former woods worker Miki takes his chances to start doing business at a local level and climb up the ladder to become the biggest mafia boss in the country.

Mikuláš Černák became a respected boss of a mafia group. But that's not enough for him. He wants to take over the whole of Slovakia. Become the boss of all bosses. But the road to the top is lined with traitors and corpses. And Černák has underestimated the most powerful mafia ever to rule Slovakia - the politicians and their secret service.