Este autor, originario de Sudáfrica, aporta la aguda perspectiva de un patólogo sobre lo físico a su exploración de la condición humana. Su carrera temprana en la Rodesia devastada por la guerra, examinando a los muertos y moribundos, le infundió una perspectiva única sobre la mortalidad y la resiliencia. Al trasladarse a Nueva Zelanda, se sumergió en extensos casos, encontrando una gran variedad de experiencias humanas que perfeccionaron su dominio del realismo psicológico. Su escritura a menudo indaga en la esencia de la vida y la muerte, investigando lo que significa ser humano frente a la adversidad.
"Spontaneous combustion and exhumation, drug mules and devil worshippers, a gruesome killing beneath the Palmerston North Airport control tower, a mysterious death in a historic homestead, a first-hand dissection of the infamous Mark Lundy case ... In The cause of death, provincial pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp lifts the lid on the most unusual stories of death and murder he's encountered during his 30-year career"--Back cover
True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end. A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp takes readers into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.