"An intriguing and entertaining account of a doctor's encounters with the luminaries of film and sport. It is a diverting account of a professional life with a difference." - Peter Ackroyd

"An intriguing and entertaining account of a doctor's encounters with the luminaries of film and sport. It is a diverting account of a professional life with a difference." - Peter Ackroyd

The animal form of the disease severely limits livestock production and farming, and in people the toxic effects of the treatment for the brain disease can be as painful and dangerous as the disease itself.

Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps.