Do Not Resuscitate
Do Not Resuscitate
Author: Nicholas Ponticello
Desc: Jim Frost thinks that when you’re dead you’re dead. Gone. Finished. Kaput. But on the eve of his seventy-third birthday his daughter suggests he have his brain downloaded to a microchip for safekeeping and Jim is forced to consider what it really means to die—and what it might mean to live forever. Recipient of the 2015 Green Book Festival honorable mention in fiction and semi-finalist in the 2015 Kindle Book Awards Do Not Resuscitate is the firsthand account of Jim Frost an aging misanthropist who witnessed the rise and fall of the United States as a world power the digitalization of the planet the advent of the water wars and the near collapse of the global economy. Yet he remains impervious to it all. Concerned more with his plasma TV high-speed Internet and continual supply of hash twentysomething Jim takes an under-the-table job off Craigslist delivering mysterious red coolers to strangers in cafés in an effort to pay the bills. But when Jim’s enigmatic employer asks him to fly to North Korea for a delivery Jim starts to wonder what he’s gotten himself into.