Blind Greed: From Ivy League to International Fugitive
What happens when ambition becomes addiction, and success becomes a death sentence?
Blind Greed explodes off the page like a classic Greek tragedy colliding with a Jason Bourne thriller -except every shocking twist and detail actually happened.
Lawrence Hartman had it all: Columbia Law School degree, unlimited potential, a golden ticket to the American Dream. But one taste of easy money transforms him from promising attorney into the puppet master of a global criminal empire that would make Gordon Gekko blush.
This isn't just white-collar crime-this is war.
Watch Hartman's meteoric rise and catastrophic fall as he transforms from internet entrepreneur to online gambling impresario, ultimately orchestrating one of the world's most sophisticated offshore boiler room operations. From the neon-drenched excess of Las Vegas high-roller suites to the hidden fortresses of Costa Rica, from Monaco's glittering casinos where fortunes are won and lost in a single hand, to Barcelona's ancient streets where modern crimes play out against medieval backdrops, and top it all off with clandestine Swiss banking.
The stakes? Everything.
When you're raising hundreds of millions from investors across the globe, it's only a question of time before you have a target on your back, or worse. Hartman survives a terrifying kidnapping, only to discover that Interpol has issued a Red Notice with his name on it. Now he's not just a criminal, he's prey, a fugitive on the run.
Escape?
Living under a false identity, Hartman becomes a ghost, moving through international airports and five-star hotels like a Mossad operative, always one step ahead of capture, one mistake away from prison, or a bullet. Every phone call could be his last. Every border crossing might be a trap. Every relationship becomes a weapon that could destroy him.
The price? His soul.
Torn between the family he desperately loves and the criminal empire he can't abandon, Hartman walks a razor's edge between salvation and damnation. His wife doesn't know. His children don't suspect. But he's living a double life and the walls are closing in, and his hubris-that fatal flaw of every tragic hero-is about to bring everything crashing down.
The ending? Unthinkable.
When Hartman finally falls, he falls hard-straight into Nicaragua's El Chipote prison, a rat-infested hellhole where survival is measured in hours, not years. Bound, shackled, and facing extradition to face justice for crimes that involve over a dozen law enforcement agencies, he has one final card to play.
But will anyone come to save a man so driven by his greed?
You think you know how this story ends. You're wrong.
Blind Greed is The Wolf of Wall Street meets Catch Me If You Can-a pulse-pounding true story of spectacular greed, international intrigue, and ultimate justice that reads like fiction but will haunt you like the True Crime it is. This is the book you'll finish in one sitting, then immediately hand to everyone you know.
Because some stories are too incredible to be anything but true.
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