The Quick and the Dead True Stories of Life and Death from a New Zealand Pathologist

<p>True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist </p><br> <p>From the number-one bestselling author of <em>The Cause of Death</em> comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end.</p><p>A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In <em>The Quick and the Dead</em>, 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.</p>