Eddie Mcclintock

In 2006, Sgt. Braxton McCoy (Ret.) was severely wounded by a suicide bomber in Ramadi, Iraq, and later told he may never walk again. After nearly a decade of physical therapy and rehabilitation Braxton has not only regained the majority of his strength, but he has now climbed mountains and competed in endurance races. This book follows his story from the day he was wounded through his nearly decade long rehabilitation. Along the way he finds himself trying to adapt to the world with a mind and body he no longer understands. Braxton battles not just physical and mental trauma, but a host of other issues such as nihilism, opioid and alcohol addiction, suicide and a Traumatic Brain Injury. In the end, he is able to work through all of these challenges, but like Odysseus, he and those who read his story are changed forever.

From the What do you think about when you're upside down at 5,000 feet? When a team disappears? What do you do when there are only nine of you against thousands of them? When a hand reaches out from the darkness? What do you hear when a twig snaps? When the prop wash overtakes you? What do you tell your family in that first letter home? What do you say to the dead when you never got to say good-bye?