Book description
By the time he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2007,
Mischa Weisz had all he needed to face the fight of his life. A child
of Holocaust survivors, he felt distant from his parents and had no
idea of his own heritage until he was well into his teens - too late
to adopt it as his own.
When Mischa and his first wife split, he battled for custody of
their son and daughter, emerging as an unlikely but devoted single
father living on unemployment insurance as he plotted his move into
independent business. His work with computers and bank machines
positioned him to take advantage when the Canadian government opened
the Interac network to independent operators. Weisz grew his company
into a powerhouse, amassing a fortune processing ATM withdrawals that
Canadians make at gas stations, variety stores, casinos, and other
locations.
On October 2, 2009, Mischa passed away at the age of 53. In this
inspiring memoir he documents how it's possible to thrive even in the
toughest conditions and demonstrates how he lived on his terms while
battling cancer formore than two years.
Mischa Weisz was born in Barrie, Ontario, and grew up in Hamilton.
In the 1990s he set up TNS Smart Network, a key provider of access to
the Internet network for thirteen thousand independently operated bank
machines across Canada. In 2009 he sold the compoany.
Wade Hemsworth is an award-winning reporter with the Hamilton
Spectator and is the author of two previosu works of non-fiction,
Killing Time and Both My Legs
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