Fight­ing Back is Jeff Weis­s’s sec­ond book. He is also the co-author of I Am My Brother’s Keep­er (Schif­fer Mil­i­tary His­to­ry, 1998), which tells the sto­ry of Amer­i­can and Cana­di­an vol­un­teers in all branch­es of the Israel Defense Forces dur­ing the 1948 War of Inde­pen­dence. He is fea­tured in the 2014 Nan­cy Spiel­berg doc­u­men­tary Above and Beyond. Jeff is pas­sion­ate about fit­ness and is an Iron­man and ultramarathoner.