Hello Beautiful

This is the story of Kurt West, the son of a horse whisperer from Arizona and a Turkish woman.

Kurt inherits his father's ability to speak to animals. He is a loner. His parents died when he is young. He decides to go medical school after college and then to Austria to specialize in his surgical training. While in Austria, he falls in love with a fellow student, Mia. They marry and follow through on her plan to go to Kenya and serve with Doctors Without Borders. While there, they are attacked by Somali terrorists, who take Kurt hostage.

Al Guner was born 1950 in Istanbul, Turkiye. After becoming dentist in Turkiye, he moved to Germany for post graduate studies. During that time, he was offered a postgraduate training program by the Department of Dental and maxilla facial surgery Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria. After completing the training program, he received a Maxilla Facial Surgery fellowship offer. Unexpected health problems forced him return to Turkiye. He completed his military duty in the Turkish army as a medical lieutenant. Afterwards Al became a partner in a music company in Istanbul, Turkiye. Eventually Al sold his shares in the company to EMI- London. In 1989 Al moved to Tucson, AZ with his family. Thereafter received MBA, PhD degree. He now lives in Tucson, with his wife, and they have two daughters.