John Graham shipped out on a freighter when he was sixteen, took part in the first (and only) ascent of Mt. McKinley's North Wall at twenty, and hitchhiked around the world at twenty-two, covering every war he found along the way as a stringer for the Boston Globe. A Foreign Service Officer for fifteen years, he was in the middle of the revolution in Libya and the war in Vietnam.To the young Graham, adventure was everything, and each brush with death...