One Trillion Dollars, Andreas Eschbach
One Trillion Dollars, Andreas Eschbach
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One Trillion Dollars

Author: Andreas Eschbach, Frank Keith

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 25 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lübbe

Published: 11/06/2018

Synopsis

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—one million times one million—$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.

About Andreas Eschbach

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.

About Adam Verner

Adam Verner is a full-time narrator and voice talent with over one hundred titles recorded. He is the recipient of AudioFile Earphones Awards for Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck and The Big It by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Adam earned his MFA in acting from the Chicago College of the Fine Arts at Roosevelt University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on May 09, 2023

The main character arc is nice but it would have had much more potential for complexity, conspiracies, international conglomerates, world government, big money,.. for a whole series. This is no rant, it´s just a kind of sad truth to me: You see, I am, for years now, just reading not European (excludin......more

Goodreads review by Anna on March 13, 2016

I read this book in German, as it is originally written in that language, but I'm writing this in English anyway, since I think more people can read it that way. The book follows John Fontanelli, who never did well financially and now inherits one trillion dollars and a prophecy that he will give man......more

Goodreads review by Alvar on February 05, 2019

Ist schon eine Weile her, dass ich das Buch gelesen habe - letztlich ist es mir eher als durchschnittlich in Erinnerung geblieben. Was es zu bieten hat: bewährten Eschbach'schen Stil, eine odentliche Story und Einiges wirklich gut Recherchiertes zum Wesen von Geld und modernem Finanzsystem. Hat bei m......more

Goodreads review by Toni on February 14, 2010

read it in a week. solely because i wanted to finish it not to say want to get it done. however it explains some interesting views on money and the large picture of the financial world system. the ending sucks.......more

Goodreads review by Tan on February 23, 2015

A novel about the idea of economics. Love it! Read the paper version. You'll love the page numbers.......more

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