One Trillion Dollars: An absolutely gripping page turning thriller about a man who inherits a life-changing fortune

by Andreas Eschbach, Frank Keith (Translator)

Overview

What would you do if you were the richest person in the world overnight?

Yesterday John Fontanelli was just a pizza delivery guy in New York City. One day later he’s the richest man in the world. One trillion dollars: $1,000,000,000,000! More money than anyone could imagine.

For generations the Vacchis, an old Italian family of lawyers and asset managers, had supervised the fortune as it grew over five hundred years, until one particular date that the benefactor had stipulated in his will. The youngest male descendant would be fated to oversee the fortune for the good of humanity.

John relishes his new life of luxury, rubbing elbows with royalty, buying up corporations, fielding a flood of beautiful women - until one day the phone rings, and a mysterious stranger tells the trillionaire that he knows what dirty secrets lie behind the fortune...

Bestselling author Andreas Eschbach's »One Trillion Dollars« is a thriller that pits morality and choice against the lust for material goods - at any cost.

This novel inspired the Paramount+ television series "One Billion Dollars".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783838753126
Publisher:	Bastei Lübbe
Publication date:	08/15/2014
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1042
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Andreas Eschbach studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later founded his own IT consulting company before becoming a full-time writer. Several of his novels, including The Jesus-Video and One Trillion Dollars, became nationwide bestsellers in Germany. He has been awarded both the Kurd-Lasswitz-Preis, Germany's most prestigious science fiction award, and the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis several times. The Carpetmakers, Eschbach's only other book translated into English, was listed as one of the best science fiction books of 2005 by SFSite.com and recommended by Locus. In 2002 his novel The Jesus-Video was adapted for German television. Eschbach lives with his wife in Brittany, France.

Adam Verner is a stage, film, television, and voice actor and an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. He holds a BS in theater arts from Bradley University and an MFA from Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.