{"product_id":"bertrand","title":"Bertrand By Bertrand","description":"\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eBased on the true story of one man''s rise through the cracks in the American empire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eMark Bertrand was a Navy fighter pilot turned aerospace engineer-brilliant, disciplined, loyal to the flag and the work until the system betrayed him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eWhen a multi-million-dollar invention he designed is quietly stolen and buried by a defense contractor, Mark doesn''t go to court. He disappears.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eIn the 1990s America-an empire fraying under deregulation, techno-optimism, and vanishing accountability-Mark reinvents himself. With forged documents, spiritual camouflage, and a network of rogue financiers and expats, he builds a new identity in the shadows. Offshore foundations. Shell nonprofits. Echo-ledger trades whispered in the language of belief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eHis allies: Buddhist monks, oil kings, and cold-eyed insiders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eHis weapon: the idea that truth is negotiable-and value is whatever people can be made to believe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eBut when he begins laundering not just money, but identity itself, one question refuses to stay buried:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"ql-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eHow many lives can a man live before he loses his own?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eBertrand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e is a harrowing true story of financial seduction, spiritual disguise, and the thin line between reinvention and erasure. In a world where everything is for sale-faith, freedom, even memory-this is what happens when a man turns the game inside out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57836790645118,"sku":"NW9798993104331","price":17.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/bertrand","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}