The Phantom Limb

His hands never shook. Then he lost the right one - and the man who took it gave it back.

Dr. Adrian Vance built a career out of certainty. Steady hands, a spotless record, the kind of surgical instinct other doctors quietly envied. Then two men cornered him in a parking garage and spent four unhurried minutes proving he could be broken, one knuckle at a time.

The offer that follows should feel like a miracle. A prosthetic hand, wired straight into his motor cortex, faster and steadier than t...