The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

This is a real feel-good, zany story you wish would never end.  It's one of the funniest books I have read - just my style. 

Imagine Allan, a geriatric reluctant to celebrate his birthday in an old-age home.  He makes a spur of the moment decision to leave via the window and makes his way in his slippers to a bus station.  There he meets an annoying young man who is struggling to get his large suitcase into the toilet cubicle where, as he coarsely says, he needs to "take a dump".  He curtly asks the old man to take care of it.  When the bus arrives, Allan climbs on board taking the suitcase with him (he had only slippers after all and the young man had offended him, too).  This is the start of a journey involving a series of unlikely events that have to do with the contents of the suitcase and lead to dead bodies and baffled policemen.  There's even a circus elephant in the tale. The story also covers parts of Allan's earlier life involving meeting great historical figues such as Stalin, Roosevelt, Truman, and De Gaulle and secretly advising both the USSR and The West on development of atomic bombs.  It's a fascinating, quirky combination of a story of Allan's crazy escapades and his involvement in key events of the twentieth century.  Anyone interested in History is likely to find this particularly entertaining.  RST