Jump Again: A Life of Risk, Reinvention, and the Courage to Begin Again

He has lost everything more than once. This is what he learned on the way back.

At fifteen, Alaattin Tuncer was failing eight classes and had one week to fix it — or lose the only thing he loved, the sky. He passed. It was the first time he discovered that he could work that hard, and that he simply never had.

What followed was a life almost nobody would believe if it were fiction. A boy who could not swim talked his way into an elite underwater-technology program and became a commercial diver working eighty meters down. A man who could not ask for a bathroom in English built a working life in America. He ran five companies in Qatar and moved thousands of workers across borders. He had a gun held to his head over a business dispute. He lost his house, his equipment, and about three million dollars, and accepted eighty thousand to make the fighting stop.

He went back to sea and rose to command a ship. He lost that too, and lived in a truck for a year. He rebuilt his body from 130 kilograms. He built a family business his wife and three sons could live inside — and then COVID pneumonia put him in intensive care, where a doctor told him to make peace with his family and the most ambitious thing he could imagine was standing outside and feeling wind on his face.

It took him eight months to come off oxygen. It started with two steps.

JUMP AGAIN is a memoir of risk, ruin, and reinvention, told with unusual honesty about the cost. Tuncer refuses to make himself the hero. He was a bully as a boy. He hid injuries out of pride. He became the shouting boss he had once quit. He faked his way through a hospital walking test and nearly collapsed.

This is a book for anyone standing at the end of a chapter, wondering whether there is another one.

"As long as I am breathing, I still have another chance."

This audiobook is narrated by a digital (AI) voice.