In a flash, Kimberly Dozier’s life changed. As an award-winning CBS News reporter, Dozier had devoted her career to being in the right place at the right time to capture the story. Suddenly, in the wrong place at the worst time, she became the story, as a deadly explosion tore through her team and word spread worldwide.
That Memorial Day in 2006, a routine mission ended with Dozier in a pool of blood on a Baghdad street, a victim of a car bomb that killed cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan as well as Captain James Alex Funkhouser and his translator.
Critically injured, Dozier woke to find herself fighting first for survival, then for recovery, and finally to return to her career. Breathing the Fire tracks one woman’s relentless determination to get the story, to get it right, and to get well again after everything went wrong.
In vivid and unapologetic detail, she recounts the moments from bomb to rescue to the waves of pain that spread from that Baghdad blast to homes and families around the world, now linked by an event horribly commonplace for U.S. troops and Iraqis alike.
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