Ben Sherwood is an American journalist, famous television presenter and producer, author of two best-selling novels translated into a dozen languages (“The Man Who Ate the Boeing 747” and “The Double Life of Charlie St. Cloud”). The novel about Charlie St. Cloud, filmed in 2010, is already familiar to Russian readers. But Sherwood’s debut novel, from which his great fame began, is being published in Russian for the first time. The rights to the film adaptation of the novel “The Man Who Ate a Boeing 747” were acquired by the film company Bel Air Entertainment / Warner Bros. John Smith, a completely ordinary man (befitting his name), works in the editorial office of the Guinness Book of Records and therefore has been hunting for years behind everything extraordinary, outstanding, exceptional, “the very best.” Wherever he has been, whatever records he has recorded, but he has never had to witness great love, until the pursuit of sensation led him to the American outback, where, according to rumors, a local farmer is slowly but surely, piece by piece, absorbing "Boeing", with one single goal - to impress your beloved and finally win her heart. In this fantastically realistic story, where the normal often turns out to be abnormal, and vice versa, in spite of everything, love triumphs again.