Making money everytime it rains is a metaphor for just how rampant modern immorality and materialism have become in this story of a young man's search for meaning. Teacher Don Mallory leaves his job to take possession of his late Uncle Max's home in Baltimore only to find Uncle Max reincarnated (he faked his own death) as Henri Goldleaf Lafayette III, attorney at law and head psychiatrist of his own Center for Psychiatric Retribution (he can treat people with disorders and then sue who or what he deems caused them). Don is reluctantly drawn into his uncle's lifestyle, and together they hatch the ultimate scheme: sneaking a bill through Congress that enables them to collect money for their company American Rain every time there is precipitation. Of course it all ends in disaster,and this time both are forced to fake their own deaths, but in so doing Don finds himself. Despite attempted humor and colorful characters, a didactic tone pervades the novel, and the mental posturing overwhelms and reduces the characters to cartoons. Not recommended.