
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in
Author: Chip Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart stolen out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes...

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in