When Luke endures cancer at age eight, he toughens up and battles a shape-shifting adversary for fifty-seven years. To fight back, he letters in track and football in high school; joins the Marines to become a battle-hardened lance corporal; achieves dual PhD degrees in exercise physiology and sports psychology; and cofounds the nation's first cardiac rehabilitation center. In tandem with his remarkable academic and career achievements, Luke demonstrates superhuman resilience through extreme athletic feats. His dangerous pursuits validate the life-sustaining power of a wellness mindset and positive risk-taking. With Jody, his equally courageous lover at his side, he leaps nine stories from a bridge into the Missouri River with nine feet of water depth; scuba dives underwater nonstop for over forty hours; free-falls over one mile during his first skydive; swims 375 miles from Kansas City to St. Louis in the Missouri River while fighting hypothermia; and scales the tallest skyscraper in Denver to support medical research. During these severe tests of willpower, he confronts four cancer recurrences with the courage and resolve of a health warrior able to do what it takes to survive. Luke's severe trials of strength and resolve also reveal wellness lessons that can inspire and inform readers facing significant health challenges.


Brent Green is an internationally recognized marketing communication strategist, creative director, business writer, speaker, trainer, social commentator, and consultant focusing on the intersection of aging and generational sociology. Author of two business books, including Marketing to Leading Edge Baby Boomers, he has received over fifty awards for creative and writing excellence. He has also published Noble Chaos, a historical novel about the tumultuous late sixties from the perspective of college students. WARRIOR, his sixth book, explores how those who are aging past 50, 60, and 70 can take greater control of their health and experience a more vigorous and engaged life, no matter what challenges may appear.