It told the story of an fascinating career and an extrodinary issue. Joshua mezrich has a lot of interesting stories to tell. These are really people. There was a couple of sad stories involving young children. The stories are very detailed and you could imagine yourself in their place having to make the decision to donate the organs.Transplants are an topic that a lot of People know hardly anything about. This book is a true medical history of transplants. There was a lot of medical language and some words I had to look up. The book wasn't all about the author,he did tell stories about other surgeon's which made it more interesting. The book has a index so if you only want to read one subject you can.