Kirjahaku

An 18-year-old, prone to mulling, is told he has only weeks to live. He denies the diagnosis at first, then doubts it, but just in case, he decides to cram an entire life into what time he has left. Along the way he accumulates $75,000 in gold, a clown suit, 71/2 fishing rods, all the soap and shampoo from The Four Season's he can lay his hands on, and in the process bumps into a lot of people and situations that contradict the stereotypes and "consensus of opinions" he learned from us. Oh, yeah, he may have to explain all the dead people he's left in his wake.

When Alastair Malloy hires Ethan Pendergast to join his charitable foundation, he gives the young man the wealth he craves. But by asking him to be his eventual successor, he also demands that he become him. It involves embracing his universal philosophy of the Five Human Systems he believes motivates everyone on earth. But better to Ethan's mind, it also means learning to enjoy the best food, drink the finest wines and travel in style, the only hardship being the struggle to tell the difference between lust and love. Ethan never imagined philanthropy could have a dark side. Or that becoming Alastair meant people would die.