There I was, sitting on a plane in Portugal reading the newspaper as we took off. Nothing new for me. Thirty minutes later, I’m sitting with a doctor who’s administering oxygen. Very new for me. Forty minutes after that, following an emergency landing in a small town in northern Spain, I’m in the accident and [...]

I’m on a flying visit to the U.K. and Europe. I worked out of the U.K. office last week, and now I’m on a short vacation with my long-lost wife in the Algarve before I head back to NYC. Vacations and book reading are pretty synonymous for me. But while most people read the latest [...]