Rick Green, Esquire — Harvey Sawikin

Twenty-five-year-old Rick Green is long on education but very short on life experience. But 1980's New York City is about to change all that. Although he leaves Harvard Law School filled with idealistic ambition, he is quickly seduced by the lure of big money, joining one of the city's top firms at the peak of the leveraged buyout craze. It isn't long before he finds himself overwhelmed with responsibility and lost in the chaos of high finance. Even more disturbing, he is doing daily battle with his conscience over matters he can barely understand. Things aren't any calmer in his personal life. Throwing all his cautionary instincts to the wind, he leaves his sweet, virginal girlfriend, Shelly, and takes up with a sexy, unpredictable woman who is way out of his league. With temptations everywhere, Rick's personal and professional lines become blurred. In the haze of a drunken giddy spree, Rick slips insider information to a friend and soon finds himself in the middle of an SEC investigation. Now he's faced with a moral crisis that will test him and his unraveling world to the core. Rick Green's turning point mirrors America's own during the Reagan years of deregulation, boom and buyout. Frantic and funny, with intriguing plot twists and an unexpected ending, Rick Green, Esquire is a noteworthy fiction debut. “I enjoyed Rick Green,” said Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22. The Plain Dealer called it “likable, often hilarious,” while The Legal Times raved that it “races toward its conclusion with the speed and assuredness of a schooner at full sail…. An impressive debut, a first novel deserving of your time.”