{"product_id":"b0hf67ydb9","title":"Nine Lives. One True Love: From a Japanese POW Camp to a Liver Transplant-A Memoir of Survival, Redemption, and Second Chances","description":"\u003cp\u003eI died nine times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot metaphorically.\u003cbr\u003e\nNot poetically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNine times life cornered me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a jungle.\u003cbr\u003e\nOn an operating table.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a storm.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the darkness of depression.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn battles fought by my father long before I was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNine times the story should have ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut somehow... it didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow does a missionary kid from the jungles of New Guinea end up helping Eric Clapton build a treatment center in the Caribbean and later doing business with Trump International?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is only part of the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis unforgettable memoir begins long before Lester Keizer was born—in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, where his father learned to survive the unimaginable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom there, the story travels through the jungles of New Guinea and Borneo, where poisoned arrows, tribal warfare, civil unrest, and tropical storms shaped a boy who learned early that life is fragile and every day is a gift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut the jungle was only the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLester would go from missionary kid to minister... from preacher to healthcare executive... from boardrooms and private jets to helping develop Crossroads Centre Antigua, the internationally recognized addiction recovery center founded by Eric Clapton, where he served as the project's development point man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLater, as CEO of a leading technology company in Las Vegas, he would build a business that served major corporations and landmark properties, including the Trump International Hotel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the outside, it looked like success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside, another battle was raging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOpen-heart surgery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA liver transplant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLong COVID.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDepression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd a lifetime spent searching for meaning beyond achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way came four careers, four marriages, extraordinary victories, devastating failures, and countless moments when everything seemed lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet through every setback, one question remained:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy had he been allowed to survive?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe answer would not be found in wealth, status, power, or accomplishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt would be found in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe kind of love that sits beside a hospital bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe kind that holds your hand when the odds are against you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe kind that rebuilds a broken life one piece at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNine Lives. One True Love  is a powerful true story of survival, faith, resilience, redemption, second chances, and the extraordinary power of finding peace after a lifetime of searching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoy inspiring memoirs, stories of overcoming adversity, medical miracles, personal transformation, and unforgettable love stories, this book will stay with you long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes the greatest miracle isn't surviving.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt's finally learning how to live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924513816821,"sku":"YSL52836","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/51K-91WC1UL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673107","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0hf67ydb9","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}