Three prayers for the countdown

Three Prayers for the Countdown is a captivating first-hand account of the Pamplona Bull Run, combining the experience of a seasoned runner and a journalist´s curiosity. Within its pages, adrenalin-fuelled frenzy alternates with passages of eerie calm; a deaf man feels the electricity of the bull at his back as he runs, while a 20-years-old dies thousands of miles from home; surgeons fear uncertainty, a man who has just been tossed by a bull scrabbles on the ground for his glasses, and a local politician leaves Arthur Miller in the lurch because he has to keep an appointment with the bulls.

Three Prayers for the Countdown speaks of fear, death, chance and anxiety, but also of happiness, joy and the intensity of the morning sun after the herd has passed. It is a plea for life, in all its chaos and confusion.