A Life in Gold

Jean-Christophe Rousseau aka JC is a humorous, fearless, hard-living, quick-thinking French entrepreneur. His swashbuckling memoir describes some of the situations - funny, weird, hair-raising, delicious - in which these qualities have landed him.

Loosely based on his business travels over the last ten years, JC's vignettes of the life of a globe-trotting gold leaf salesman describe encounters with characters as diverse as Britney Spears, a group of Bielorussian gangsters, the Casablanca major-domo of the King of Saudi Arabia, and the ghost of a beautiful English writer in a remote fortress in northern India. He tells his stories with the skill and gusto of a born raconteur, and there are said to be many more to come...