Kirjahaku

American Lawson Banks is terminally ill with stage IV cancer and wants to spend the last days of his life on a beach in Thailand. Where does he get the money? Viatication, also known as death futures. He sells his life insurance benefit to the highest bidder. Thanks to the pleasures of Thailand he lives longer than expected, and now investors are waiting for him to die.

An American political science professor is found dead in a local catfish pond. Then one of her graduate students disappears and Bonner sees the connection. But it's the last thing he wants. He'd rather open a campus coffee shop and enjoy his escape from America. But when an old friend reappears and needs help, Bonner is compelled to change.He's forced on a mission up the Mekong River to Laos where he will take on a surprisingly American cargo, two soldiers AWOL from Iraq who followed the old hippie trail to freedom. The Mekong River where they travel holds the secret to a tragic love affair, an old friendship, and a changing Far East.