Tento autor, pôvodom z Južnej Afriky, spája svoj lekársky pohľad na ľudskú fyziológiu s hlbokým záujmom o temnejšie stránky ľudskej skúsenosti. Jeho raná kariéra v Rodézii, kde pracoval ako patológ, ho vystavila extrémnym podmienkam, ktoré formovali jeho jedinečnú perspektívu. Neskôr na Novom Zélande sa ponoril do rozsiahlej práce, kde sa stretával s rozmanitými prípadmi a ďalej rozvíjal svoje majstrovstvo v psychologickom realizme. Jeho diela sa často zaoberajú podstatou života a smrti, skúmajú, čo znamená byť človekom tvárou v tvár nepriazni osudu.
"Spontaneous combustion and exhumation, drug mules and devil worshippers, a gruesome killing beneath the Palmerston North Airport control tower, a mysterious death in a historic homestead, a first-hand dissection of the infamous Mark Lundy case ... In The cause of death, provincial pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp lifts the lid on the most unusual stories of death and murder he's encountered during his 30-year career"--Back cover
True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end. A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp takes readers into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.