The phone call took two minutes. It redrew the entire map.

One day David E. Temple was writing thrillers, interviewing bestselling authors, making films, building what was next. The next, he was staring down prostate cancer with no script, no swagger, and no playbook for what a man is supposed to do when his own body declares war.

Most men don't know how to talk about what scares them. Not because they're weak. Because they've been trained to push through, man up, and pretend nothing hurts. That works right up until a doctor clears his throat, looks at a chart, and hands you a sentence you don't get to hand back.

Life in Two Columns is what happens when masculinity meets mortality. A blunt, unvarnished reckoning with fear, marriage, and ego. With the conversations men avoid, including the ones that could save them. Written by a man who finally stopped lying to himself, and would like you to stop pretending you're unbreakable long enough to pay attention.

If you're a man who thinks he's fine. If you're a woman who loves a man who won't open up. If you've been blindsided by life's left hook. This isn't a cancer book. It's a wake-up call.

Narrated by the author. Temple has spent nearly fifty years behind a microphone: major-market radio, film, television, and the voice of the Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland since 1995. This is that voice, telling the hardest story he has.