A Dickens of a Silicon Valley Cautionary ThrillerSan Francisco techie Eben Scratch becomes the world's first trillionaire on his 30th birthday. Like a high-tech A Christmas Carol, Eben's greed has ruined his life and just might ruin the world if the Time Weavers--Simon, who can choose the course of history from the intersections of past and future realities, Fiona Black, proprietor of The Intoxicating Page, a bar-bookstore where cocktails are matched to literature, Volodya Kazimer, a cold-war era Russian hacker whose software calculates the probabilities for different futures, and Winter, a beagle--can't rescue Eben from himself.Ranging from San Francisco to Paris, Mexico, India, and Vienna, Too Rich to Die melds Silicon Valley wealth, the French Revolution, and developing world sweatshops into a fast-paced story of love and money...
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