1.58 Seconds

1.58 Seconds

Alfred Sparman MD

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Editorial:
iUniverse
Año de edición:
2010
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781450268141

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Dr Alfred Sparman was born to a lower class family in Guyana and migrated to Brooklyn, NY in his early childhood. In '1.58 Seconds', he uses some of the struggles that he encountered as he journeyed from being a security guard to one of the best interventional cardiologists in the Caribbean. '1.58 seconds' fictionally expresses the integral relationship between living and dying. This fictional novel takes you through nerve ending near death episodes, from the 9mm sig semi-automatic pistol pointed at the chest of a potential patient at point blank range...to the head butt that fractured the facial bones of a would be patient...the 90mph ride on the median of I95 in Florida during stormy weather ... Now he is in a frantic battle to save a patient’s (Jimmy Smith) life. Time is against him, every second passing brings Jimmy closer to the other side. With the four minute schedule given to him, would he rupture an artery with his scalpel under such pressure? Could he actually deliver that final blow? Could he actually do the killing??? Only time would tell...

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