For the Beauty of the Earth: A Novel

Bruce Warrick is a young, Harvard MBA with a new position for a global, financial conglomerate in New York as the portfolio manager of a Top 50 hedge fund and who suffers from a sleep disorder, which under severe stress drives him irresistibly to fall asleep. His powerful CEO compels him to join a private, hedge fund association -- the Keynes Society at the Harvard Club of New York. Bruce learns that the Keynes Society privately controls $1 trillion in assets in a dark pool -- more than the individual GDPs of all but eight nations worldwide. The trouble begins when Bruce learns that the members of the Keynes Society are trading stocks under the influence of an enigmatic, globally elite Board of Governors. When Bruce is told by his firm to trade illegally at the Keynes Society, he may blow the whistle. But why risk paradise on earth against such intimidating power? What is the net asset value on Wall Street of one's soul? "For the Beauty of the Earth" was read for a Pulitzer Prize in Letters but did not short-list.