First came the coffee. Then, the handshake. We had an agreement. In a matter of days I was transported from upper Manhattan to a place with no name, situated at the very edge of the world. Somalia, a place of seemingly endless death, tribal warfare and thousand-year-old vendettas. Utterly flummoxed and breathtakingly out of my element, I felt like a complete, confused, quixotic impostor. Mine is the story of an American surgeon stunningly unprepared for the events in which he was about to engage.

The Dude 'Du Jour' of Somalia

Eli Shaber

Greenpoint Press

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The Dude 'Du Jour' of Somalia