The Looking Mask: A Journey Through Cancer, is a powerful and intimate account of a man's fight with cancer, its physical and emotional consequences, and himself. Stephen Wendt is an outwardly successful man. He is a husband of thirty-four years, the father of three children, the grandfather of three, and a retired Naval Officer who served his country for almost twenty-eight years. Despite all his success, his life turns on the simple sentence: "You need to prepare yourself for the very real possibility that you have cancer." The Looking Mask is the story of Steve's five month fight with...