Nine Lives. One True Love: From a Japanese POW Camp to a Liver Transplant-A Memoir of Survival, Redemption, and Second Chances

How does a missionary kid from the jungles of New Guinea end up helping Eric Clapton build a treatment center in the Caribbean and later doing business with Trump International? This unforgettable memoir begins long before Lester Keizer was born—in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, where his father learned to survive the unimaginable. From there, the story travels through the jungles of New Guinea and Borneo, where poisoned arrows, tribal warfare, civil unrest, and tropical storms shaped a boy who learned early that life is fragile and every day is a gift. Lester would go from missionary kid to minister... from preacher to healthcare executive... from boardrooms and private jets to helping develop Crossroads Centre Antigua, the internationally recognized addiction recovery center founded by Eric Clapton, where he served as the project's development point man. Later, as CEO of a leading technology company in Las Vegas, he would build a business that served major corporations and landmark properties, including the Trump International Hotel. And a lifetime spent searching for meaning beyond achievement. Along the way came four careers, four marriages, extraordinary…