Description
A time bomb lodged in journalist Steve Fishman's brain exploded while he was on assignment in Nicaragua. He experienced a massive hemorrhage, causing him excruciating pain while rendering him partially blind. Now, with deft precision and astonishing dramatic intensity, Fishman turns complex science into breathtaking adventure, as he re-creates the miraculous operation that brought about his eventual recovery. Riveting, eye-opening, and compelling, here is the remarkable true story of one man's staggering personal tragedy...and of the power and limits of the extraordinary surgery that saved his life.ISBN:071001008951