Pay To Play

Stephen L. Keller

$29.99 USD

Available for Pre-Order. This title will be released on March 17, 2026.

Pay to Play is the tell-all memoir story of Stephen L. Keller, a brash young entrepreneur who sets out to challenge the insurance industry by bringing dignity to those at the end of their lives.

As he pioneers the controversial viatical settlement market, Keller transforms a bold idea into a billion-dollar empire, only to find that success comes at a steep price. From his rise as a scrappy stockbroker to his fall as a fugitive fleeing the country with his family abroad, Pay to Play unearths the high-stakes collision of innovation, ambition, and the dark side of the American Dream, where big business, politics, and profit converge in a system rigged for power.

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Pay To Play

$29.99 USD

About the Auther

Stephen L. Keller

Stephen L. Keller is a pioneering entrepreneur, whose real-life story reads like a corporate thriller, marked by ambition, disruption, and dramatic downfall. At just 27 years old, Keller founded Kelco, a financial firm that revolutionized the life insurance market by introducing viatical settlements, offering terminally ill patients an unprecedented way to access their life insurance benefits. By 1998, Keller launched the first-ever securitized bundles of life insurance policies on the NYSE and captured 65% of the global life settlements market: now a $30 billion annual industry.

A member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) and a legislative trailblazer who co-authored key regulations still governing the industry today, Keller rose fast and fell hard. After a high-profile FBI investigation, a federal trial, and an international manhunt, Keller was arrested by Interpol in the jungles of Panama and extradited to the U.S., where he served 9 years in federal prison. Now, more than a decade removed from his incarceration, Keller lives in South Florida where he continues to build businesses, consult, and is an active participant in his church and community services. His scholarship fund, the Stephen L. Keller foundation continues awarding annual scholarships supporting future entrepreneurs from his hometown of eastern Kentucky.

His memoir, Pay to Play, offers a behind-the-scenes exposé of ambition, corruption, and the American obsession with winning at all costs.

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