Life on the Edge: A Paramedic's Journey

By Ali Aharoun

For New York City paramedic Frank Pierce, the ghosts aren't in the graveyards-they ride with him in the back of his ambulance.

Burnt-out and sleepless, he is haunted by the patients he couldn't save, their faces returning to him in the strobing red and blue lights of his nightly rounds.

A Harrowing Journey Through a City on the Brink

Spanning three harrowing nights, Frank's journey is a feverish descent into the heart of the opioid epidemic. The streets are a warzone, and Frank is losing the battle against the crushing despair that threatens to consume him.

Each shift brings a new partner and a fresh hell:

Cardiac arrests in squalid apartmentsThe victims of a deadly new strain of heroin known as Red DeathAn endless battle against the crushing despair of the city's streets

His only anchor in the chaos is Mary Burke, the tormented daughter of a man he brought back from the brink of death. In her, Frank sees a flicker of the salvation he so desperately craves. But as his hallucinations intensify and the line between the living and the dead blurs, he is forced to confront the one soul he has been unable to rescue.

Life on the Edge is a raw, unflinching look at the psychological toll of life as a first responder. It is a story of addiction, redemption, and the brutal struggle to find a reason to keep going when you're surrounded by death.

Can a man who saves lives for a living find a way to save himself, or will he become the city's next casualty?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G5GG1VT4
• ISBN13: 9798277664469
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"