"Not since Lance Armstrong has an American athlete been so celebrated for dodging death and competing again.” - Washington Post
Brian Boyle suffered a near fatal car accident when he was eighteen. A former swimmer and bodybuilder, he had become a human skeleton but became determined to compete in the Hawaii Ironman. In October of 2007, he realized his goal and crossed the finish line in Kona. NBC television covered him during the triathlon. In 2008, Men’s Health magazine named Boyle one of its twenty heroes. He’s currently a student at St. Mary’s College in Maryland. Today is the puplishers release date of his book detailing his story.
Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead is the first-person account of his ordeal and his miraculous comeback. With enormous fortitude he learned to walk, then run, and eventually, to swim. With his dream of competing in the Ironman Triathlon spurring him on, Brian defied all odds, and three-and-a-half years after his accident, crossed the finish line in Kona, Hawaii. Brian’s inspiring journey from coma to Kona is brought to life in this memoir.
Get your copy of this inspirational / motivational new book from Brian Boyle: Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead
Amazon Customer Review
"There are 3 reasons why this book should be read by anyone wanting to be inspired or motivated: First, it is incredibly well written; second, the story is nothing short of a miracle; and third, the the central person in the story (the author) is one of those rare individuals that leads you to believe in the phenominal power of the human spirit.
This is not a story of a car accident and the recovery. It is an exploration into the mind of an incredible athlete who draws the reader into experiencing everything the he experienced. The reader feels what is like to come out of a coma and see the blinking of an eye or the slighest smile as huge achievements in communication. And the reader also feels the pain and exhiliration of completeing the swimming, biking and running of an Iron Man Triathlon. The book centers on the person, the struggle and the success rather than on the details of a tragedy.
Miraculous healing, everpresent parental support and intense athletic drive seem to be the formula that led Brian Boyle to not only recover from this horrific accident but to defy medical science and go from a 2 month coma the a 14 hour IronMan triathlon in under 2 1/2 years. Read the book, share it with your friends, give it to someone needing to overcome struggles in their own lives." - Paul K. Erbes
Back in 2008, ESPN did a story on Brian Boyle covering his amazing comeback, check it out:
Back from the dead and competing in triathlons via on ESPN.com
Bill Katovsky was a contributor on the book. He is an editor, author, and coauthor of several books, including Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, which won Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize. He’s finished the Hawaii Ironman twice and is founder of Triathlete magazine.
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