Kicking Ass and Saving Souls : The Story of a Boy from Baltimore Who Evolves from a Safecracking, Jewel-Heisting, Deep-Sea Diving, Ultimate-Fighting, International Playboy to a Globetrotting Humanitarian

by Matthews, David

• ISBN13: 9780143121329
• ISBN10: 0143121324
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101517048
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-26
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

The gripping and redemptive story of how an American boy went looking for adventure and wound up trying to save the world Stefan Templeton is a true Renaissance man with an insatiable thirst for risk. Before he was twenty-one, Templeton had hunted in Burgundy, brawled in Oxford, served as a medicine man on Colombia, escaped death in the Amazon, and trained to be a deep-sea diver on Cousteau's Calypso. In this biography that reads like a thrilling adventure novel, readers accompany Templeton through the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, and Southeast Asia-chronicling the amazing life of a playboy, jewel thief, warrior, and finally a hero who finds a focus in humanitarian relief work in some of the bleakest corners of the globe.

Author Biography

David Matthews is the author of 2007 New York Times Editor's pick Ace of Spades. His work has also appeared in Salon, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and The Autobiographer's Handbook: the 826 National Guide to Writing your Memoir. He lives in Manhattan, but can't wait to move back to Brooklyn.