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The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once‑in‑a‑generation lifesaving product: "Suspenseful storytelling helps us see and feel the struggle and frustration, the sweat and tears . . . Inspiring" (Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road) . At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died were killed instantly or bled to death before they could reach an operating table. This tragedy reinforced the need for a revolutionary treatment that could transform trauma medicine. So, when Frank Hursey and Bart Gullong - who had no medical or military experience - discovered that a cheap, crushed rock called zeolite had blood‑clotting properties, they brought it to the military's attention.
About the Author
Charles Barber is the award-winning author of Citizen Outlaw: One Man's Journey from Gang Leader to Peacekeeper, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation, and Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors. Citizen Outlaw was published in 2019 and was featured on The Today Show, The New York Times, and C-SPAN's Book TV. Charlie is a Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University, a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale, and Director of The Connection Institute, a criminal justice research institute. Before becoming an author he worked for many years in shelters for the homeless in New York City.
