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In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the beautiful true story of 1 man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.
Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.
Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s vision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his children’s faces. He started out to contemplate an astonishing " new world ": Would music still sound the same? Would sex vary? Would he recognize himself in the mirror? Would his marriage survive? Would he still be Mike May?
The procedure was filled up with risks, some of them deadly, others beyond May’s wildest dreams. Even if the surgery worked, history was against him. Less than twenty cases were known worldwide in which a person gained vision after an eternity of blindness. Each of those people suffered desperate consequences we can scarcely imagine.
There were many known reasons for May to spread vision. He could think of only a single reason to go forward. Whatever his decision, he knew it would change his life.
Beautifully written and thrillingly told, Crashing Through is a journey of suspense, daring, romance, and insight in to the mysteries of vision and the brain. Robert Kurson gives us a remarkable account of 1 man’s choice to explore what it means to see–and to truly live.
