Do Not Go Gentle
Hello
I am Allen Shay, the author of this novel. I wrote this book because I thought it was an entertaining story that would also make the reader think about where we are all heading and the role they might decide to play in that journey.
I have been a business development executive or tech entrepreneur most of my life and have shifted my focus over the last few years to the non-profit world.
This is a .org website because the net revenue from book sales will be donated to the Baltimore Animal Rescue Center, a charity here in Baltimore that means a great deal to me.
I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
From the back cover:
A moving literary novel about friendship, family, and the final journey we must all face.
When distinguished attorney John Eastman learns he has terminal cancer, he makes a decision that will alter the lives of everyone who loves him. Rather than subject himself and his family to the slow erosion of his remaining days, he chooses to leave on his own terms. Keeping his diagnosis secret—especially from his eldest daughter, Kate, who would fight for every possible treatment—John reaches out to the one person he trusts most: his oldest friend, Peter Grove, and asks him to join him on one final journey.
Despite his own failing health, Peter flies to New Mexico to accompany John on a road trip unlike any other.
As they travel north from Santa Fe into the Colorado mountains toward a place steeped in shared history, their conversations unfold with quiet restraint, shaped as much by what remains unsaid as by what is spoken. Set against the vast beauty of the American West, the journey becomes a reckoning with memory, regret, and the enduring weight of friendship.
Meanwhile, Kate begins to piece together her father’s plan and turns to Peter’s son, Scott, for help. Together, they launch into a desperate twenty-four-hour pursuit across state lines, racing against time to stop two aging men from disappearing into the mountains forever. But as the miles slip away, Scott begins to fear his father may be on this journey for reasons far more personal than loyalty alone.
At once intimate and sweeping, Do Not Go Gentle is a profound meditation on mortality, choice, forgiveness, and the ties that bind us even as life asks us to let go.
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FILM & TELEVISION ADAPTATION RIGHTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
WHY THIS STORY WILL WORK ON SCREEN
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The central relationship involves two longtime friends on a journey, making the story potentially adaptable to a disciplined production scale.
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New Mexico and Colorado provide a distinctive cinematic landscape without requiring an elaborate fictional world.
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Emotional Suspense: The audience knows that John has made a consequential decision. The pursuit creates the question of whether Kate and Scott will reach the two men in time—and what they will discover when they do.
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A Story with a Message: The film provides an opportunity to explore difficult questions about mortality and personal autonomy through character and story rather than exposition.
The underlying novel is already completed and published, providing a finished story and established intellectual property for development.
Film & Television Rights Contact:
Allen Carnaby Shay