This book is a self-help book. Its objective as it says on the cover is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. & to do that it has to find you huddled shivering on the packed earth under your mothers cot one cold dewy morning... The astonishing & riveting tale of a mans journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over rising Asia. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid & increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his their paths crossing & re-crossing in a love affair sparked & snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along. The hero of the story could be any one of us hungry for a different life. & ours too could be the fate that awaits him... Fast-paced vivid & emotionally absorbing How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change."