01615cam a2200313 4500 122812736 TxAuBib 20111024120000.0 110321s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011010255 9780307271068 0307271064 (OCoLC)699763969 DLC TxAuBib Guterson, David. Ed King : a novel / David Guterson. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 301 p. ;hb ; 25 cm. "This is a Borzoi book." -- T.p. verso. In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary-"a guy who weighs risk for a living"-takes a risk of his own, and makes the biggest error of his life. He sleeps with Diane Burroughs, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au pair who's taking care of his children for the summer. Diane gets pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, but not before turning the tables on Walter and setting in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. Their orphaned child, adopted by an adoring family and named Edward Aaron King, grows up to become a billionaire Internet tycoon and an international celebrity-the "King of Search"-who unknowingly, but inexorably, hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape.(Amazon.) 20111024. Orphans Fiction. Free will and determinism Fiction. Fate and fatalism fiction. Millionaires Fiction. Psychological fiction. TXING