The Organ Thieves

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” ( Kirkus Reviews ) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves , Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s dea