Brave, Mad and Memorable - Journalist on Assignment

Harper Collins, 2002.
From the brave to the bizarre, the inspiring to the insidious, Rob Harley has reported on an amazing array of stories during his career as a television journalist. In Brave, Mad and Memorable, he goes behind the scenes to reveal the full details about ten of the most fascinating stories he has worked on, updating each story at the end of the relevant chapter. Stories cover people and events in New Zealand and overseas, and include a year-long story on the recovery of a Kiwi doctor who forgot all her training after a serious injury in a car accident, a profile of Kurt Saxon, the American author believed to have inspired New Zealand's worst mass murderer, David Gray of Aramoana; the story of a Kiwi woman who went from Christchurch street kid to be one of the world's most imaginative frontline aid workers, and the story of the Kiwi dad looking for his daughter murdered in India on a backpacking holiday. The book ends with a moving account of Rob's time in New York after the terrorist attacks of September 11. These stories will make you laugh, cry and shake your head in wonder at the courage, depravity and tenacity of the human spirit.