Hand on the Run: The Wild True Tale, (Hardcover)

<p><b>The bizarre true story of the world's first hand transplant, the surgeons who made it happen, and the compulsive thief who got a new set of fingerprints--and took them on the lam.</b></p><p>When surgeons completed the world's first hand transplant in 1998, it was supposed to be a moment of triumph. Never before had a dead man's limb been grafted onto the living, and the possibilities for amputees, accident victims, and those born with congenital defects were nothing short of extraordinary.</p><p>But the patient they chose--Clint Hallam, a businessman from New Zealand who longed to hold both of his children's hands, embrace his wife, and play the piano again--wasn't who he claimed to be. What they didn't know, and what the media soon discovered, was that Clint was a convicted thief on the run from police and ready to steal again--with a new set of fingerprints.</p><p>This is the astonishing true story of a team of doctors who performed the impossible, the patient who conned them, and the media manhunt that captivated the world.</p>

• Hand on the Run: The Wild True Tale, (Hardcover)
• Author: Michael Noonan
• ISBN: 9781662530609
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-11-10
• Page Count: 315