Strong Survivor

Strong Victim

von R. Greg Adams

256 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Greg Adams had a damn good life. A bestselling cookbook, a partner who loved him, a dog on the back deck, and the respect of his friends.Then he walked into an exam room at Strong Memorial Hospital and everything changed.In 2015, Adams was sexually assaulted by his urologist during a routine appointment - and again two weeks later in his own home. When he tried to report it, two police departments refused to take a complaint. The Monroe County District Attorney shut down the investigation before it reached her desk. The LGBTQ liaison cop told him to send her an email. The state medical board gave the doctor a plea deal and a chaperone.The doctor kept practicing. Greg kept fighting.He taped phone calls. He taught himself the New York State Penal Code and found the statute that proved he could never have consented. He filed complaints with every agency that would listen - and most that wouldn't. He sued his attacker in small claims court, represented himself, and won.It cost him his marriage, his home, his city, and the dog who kept him alive through the darkest years. He lost them all - not to the assault, but to the fight that followed.Ten years later, another victim found him.Strong Survivor: Strong Victim is profane, brutally honest, and impossible to put down. Among the first published memoirs by an adult male sexual assault survivor in America, it is not a story about healing - it's the story of what comes before. The fight to be believed. The refusal to be silenced. And the ten-year wait for the phone call that proved he was right all along.They told him to move on, shut up, and be grateful. They picked the wrong guy.