This is the story of how an outsider rode the tides of the times to claw his way to the top. It is a precise, ruthless reckoning with a life gone wrong. A talented enough, wildly ambitious ordinary man seizes the opportunities of the internet and real estate booms, racing from a college dropout and wayward youth to a senior executive at a major corporation, standing at the pinnacle of his generation. But his impulsiveness, appetite for gambling, and wishful thinking, compounded by an unforeseeable crisis, bring his career crashing down, shatter his marriage, and bury him in debt within just a few short years. In the end, he is trapped by millions in debt, his seriously ill mother, and a middle-aged dead end.
Every gift fate bestows comes with a price, marked in secret long before. The corners cut, lies told, and risks taken in youth will all come due, one by one.
