I am not even sure where the author was going with this book. The protagonist was a Ryan Bingham, gunning for his million frequent flyer miles with Great West. He had created a world he termed Airworld, spending most of his life in the air, in airports' lounges, and at Homestead- his choice of hotel. Quite a strange and unlikely character, who I guess, couldn't commit to a person, not a place. Bingham worked as a career transition counsellor and he was one of the best. A CTC basically helped companies fire/retrench their employees, to shield employers from being the bad guys and for employees to leave as if they were being offered new careers/opportunities. Bingham had a troubled sister (Julie) who ran away from her soon-to-be held wedding, an extremely responsible sister (Kara) who tried to hold everything together, a dad who was dead, and a mom who was what, I couldn't remember.
Bingham was hoping to get a job at a mysterious firm called MythTech and grew paranoid, thinking he was being stalked, either by Great West or MythTech. MythTech at the end of the story, turned out to be pretty much a sham, Great West too seemed to be on the brink of closing down.
The finale: Bingham got his million miles and that was when he revealed that he might have some neurological dysfunction/ brain tumor, with frequent seizures and memory loss. The story ended just like that.
Didn't catch the point of book...
1/5 rating
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