Transplant: 35th Anniversary Edition

In the 1970's John and Ann Hurley are an affluent suburban couple on their way up. He is a key executive with a large shipping company and is due for another promotion. Suddenly, at thirty-five, he is stricken with a massive coronary, and given last rites. But he refuses to die. After four years of small improvements and shattering setbacks, he becomes one of the earliest heart transplant recipients in the world, undergoing pioneering surgery at Stanford University Medical Center.

As the Hur...