Novel ways to introduce a novel

I am going to write a novel, since I am going to get twenty days leave. I have a broad outline of what it is going to be and it will be about the secret that is India. It will start like this "...Standing underneath the Big Ben, ironically I thought, the timer of the time bomb has been revealed just an hour ago by my doctor. He told that my life ends in this earth by six months from now. So Assertive and so positive. And I have a bizzare idea of how to go about those six months."