A hundred-year-old following in the footsteps of Forrest Gump - if Gump were an explosives expert and overly honored vodka - decides that it's never too late to make a new start...

In the quiet of his room at the nursing home, Alan Carlson is waiting for a party he wishes would never start. It is his hundredth birthday party. The mayor and city council members will be present. Journalists from the local media will also be present. However, Alan decides to be absent. So, he puts on his slippers and escapes through the window.

Having made his grand exit, he will have an incredible adventure that will bring him face to face with various criminals, a suitcase full of cash, several incompetent police officers, and an elephant. For anyone else, this adventure would be unique. But not for Alan, who has a shocking past, having shared meals – and many more – with Stalin, Churchill, Mao, Franco, Truman, and de Gaulle, playing a key role in some of the most pivotal moments of the 20th century.

A hilariously funny and profoundly human novel about the humble greatness of everyday life and the beauty of living passionately even when the world tries to convince you that everything is desperately bleak.