The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson

While I was visiting my father in the hospital in Ontario, Oregon, after he had a hip replacement surgery, I discovered a Little Free Library, and this book caught my eye. Why wouldn't it, with a title like that? I was intrigued. I brought it home and added it to the top of Mt. TBR, but it didn't stay there for long. 

This is the (fictional) story of a centenarian in a nursing home who has decided that living there is for the birds, and escapes out the window on his birthday and ends up on an adventure that changes his life. Intertwined with this adventure are snippets from his past, where we learn that although he may not be the brightest crayon in the box, he has a passion for explosives, and helped create the atom bomb. From there it goes through dealings with communists, the cold war, and Korea, and meeting not only Albert Einstein and working with him, but also befriending Albert's dimwitted half brother Herbert.

You read and can't imagine how he's going to escape the clutches of the enemy, and then when he miraculously does, he finds himself in another impossible situation. 

This book was a very entertaining read, I definitely recommend it.

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