The Testament: John Grisham

This was a fast paced book switching between the Amazon Jungle and a US court. A wealthy man brings his family together with a few psychologists as he prepares his will. He wants to make sure there is no question on his sanity before he completes his will. He has children from several marriages and they believe he is dying from a brain tumor. Once his children and ex-wives file out of the meeting he writes another will and jumps to his death from the balcony. The new will provides for his children only in paying off any debt they had that day, the rest of his money goes to a daughter no one knew he had that was living as a missionary in the Amazon. Even more baffling is that they find out he wasn't dying and didn't have a tumor, he just decided to commit suicide. He knew his children as they all start buying things thinking they will be left billions from their dad's death. One of the attorneys is sent to find this illegitimate child and nearly dies from disease, she tells him she doesn't want the money and he leaves her the papers and winds up in the hospital. The attorney comes back from the trip and realizes he feels sorry for this deceased guy's children because he was a terrible father, this makes him look at himself and knows he too is a horrible father. He patches things up with his children and stops drinking. He then goes back to the Amazon to try to convince the heir to sign the papers and finds she died from disease, but did sign the papers, giving the money over to non-profits.