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?

What People Are Saying
"There is a balance in his writing. Lentz has a talent for blending a compelling story line with pathos and humor, a measure of literary and historical allusion, and vivid imagery. The result is the literary equivalent of high definition -- the reader is bombarded with rich text that infuses the senses." -- The Greenwich Post
"As in most of his stories, there is more than one tale to tell in this new novel. The protagonist is a kind of Adam before the Fall with a great Achilles heel. Yet in this Adam's Fall, all is not Paradise." --The Darien Times
"This is about what happens when you lose everything and you're stripped down to the bare human essentials." --The Ridgefield Press
"The retention of dignity is a recurring theme in Lentz's novels. There is always one major conflict -- the position of the individual against a great antagonistic force." --The Lewisboro Ledger
"Lentz especially likes to explore how creative people survive and contribute in a large and often impersonal environment. What is the role of a talented individual, an artist for example, in a complex, vast society?" -- The New Canaan Advertiser
"His writing is different because he does not manufacture cookie-cutter best-sellers but writes on a higher plane for a higher purpose." --The Wilton Bulletin
"Lentz's approach to writing is soul driven - searching for the meaning of life and evaluating an upside-down world." --The Weston Forum
"His pixilism is a sort of 21st century, digital metaphor that has similarities to French Impressionist paintings. Each sentence represents an idea, image or treatment of the big picture." --The Redding Pilot

About the Author
Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, David B. Lentz graduated from Bates College and has written professionally for more than 35 years. As well as "For the Beauty of the Earth," he has published five other novels: "AmericA, Inc.", "Bloomsday", "Bourbon Street", "The Day Trader" and "The Silver King." He wrote a tragicomic stage play, as an American sequel to James Joyce's "Ulysses," entitled "Bloomsday," and has adapted his novel, "AmericA, Inc.", for the stage. Lentz has published a volume of poetry, "Old Greenwich Odes", and is a member of the Academy of American Poets. His collected literary works are published in a volume entitled "Essential Lentz." Lentz has lived in the Garden District of New Orleans, Boston's Back Bay, Houston, Philadelphia's Main Line and Greenwich, Connecticut. He has served Bates College as an Alumnus-in-Admissions, the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Ad Club, the Philadelphia Mayor's Council for Literacy, Stamford-Greenwich Literacy Volunteers of America, Midnight Run for New York City Homeless, Hurricane Katrina JazzAid: New Orleans, Hope + Heroes Children's Cancer Foundation, St. Baldrick's Foundation for Children's Cancer Research, Healing the Children (Board) and St. Paul's Chapel as a Volunteer at Ground Zero. He is a member of the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association.