No Greater Love

by Frank G. Slaughter

Medical ethics and international diplomacy come into play when Dr. Ted Bronson and Dr. Liz McGowan are drawn together to try to save an Arabian princess' unborn child

252 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Frank Gill Slaughter , pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor and his interest in history and the Bible. Through his novels, he often introduced readers to new findings in medical research and new medical technologies.

Slaughter was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Stephen Lucious Slaughter and Sarah "Sallie" Nicholson Gill. When he was about five years old, his family moved to a farm near Berea, North Carolina, which is west of Oxford, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College (now Duke University) at 17 and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He began writing fiction in 1935 while a physician at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.

Books by Slaughter include The Purple Quest, Surgeon, U.S.A., Epidemic! , Tomorrow's Miracle and The Scarlet Cord. Slaughter died May 17, 2001 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Reviews

[Fonch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ladies and gentlemen, I beg your pardon for altering the order. Because it was the turn of the historical novel edited in Spain by Pamies"Game of Kings" by Dorothy Dunnetthttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... however before publishing a critical i decided to publish a review of a little gem. Or a rough diamond to discover. I have realized one thing, and is that this wonderful novel by Frank G. Slaughter has a very low note in Goodreads, while the novel whose review I will later write"Game of Kings" has some very high notes in Goodreads, and i personally have greatly displeased. With this, I'm telling Goodreads users, and that's not to be influenced by the ratings they see, or by the comments of the masses. For a book to work it depends on having a group of fans and admirers of the specific writer, and these are never usually targets. If you want to have an opinion of a book read it personally, and don't be influenced by the mass media,the pressure groups, and by what others tell you.
This book I'm talking about may be brief, but as one writer from my country Baltasar Gracián said https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... " The good if brief twice good", although I am the opposite of what the Aragonese writer said, since my criticisms are long, and heavy :-).
Before commenting on the book the first thing is to comment on something about Frank G. Slaughter https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... who was a doctor, who wrote peplum novels, that's what we call it in Europe, especially in the Mediterranean countries, such as Spain, Portugal, and especially Italy, but you think you call it Sword and sandals or Biblical Stories I would like to write the history of the genre one day. I owe all this to my friend Julie Davis, to whom I send a loving hug from Spain to her native Texas https://www.goodreads.com/author/show.... Today it is not time to talk about Frank G. Slaughter's talent as a writer of biblical novels, or peplums, though my first encounter with Frank G. Slaughter, because every book has a story was thanks to a peplum. It seems that the English title was"The thorn of Arimathea" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... that was very influenced by a writer that I have recently spoken of as it is Thomas B. Costain https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... , who told the story of the Veil of Veronica, and as it ended in Britannia, with a Roman soldier lover looking for her. This was my first encounter with Simon the wizard I would meet again by a Story of Chesty "The Velvet Up Plaque" https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... and who it would appear in Mika Waltari's "The Roman" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... although where he has more paper is in Thomas B. Costain's novel "The Chalice of silver" of course despite bad reviews, and Paul Newman's unfavorable judgment, who wanted to emulate Richard Burton in "The Robe" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... is a must-see film. There is an impeccable speech by Simon the Wizard, about how the tyrants work, which is almost Orwellian, and which unfortunately is not in Costain's novel, and more information is desired from Simon the Wizard we recommend Giovanni Papini "Life of Christ" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... and to know a little of his followers of Marcus the Wizard, and of Kerinthos and his followers, who are doing so much damage, even today. The Gnostics so praised by the New World Order recommend the book of Eusebius of Caesarea "History of the Church" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... From what they have seen, even if it was a passable, entertaining book, it has been more important than it initially seemed. Then I read another marvel, which I liked very much, but I do not recommend you. This is one of the points that I have agreed with María Alvarez de Asturias is that if I am going to talk about an erotic book before I will warn my followers, so that in this case do not read my review if they are interested. In the case of "No Greater Love" nothing happens, because there is none of that. But another Frank G. Slaughter novel called "Transplant" yes, but more than an erotic novel. It is a humorous novel, and despite the sex scenes, as Slaughter is a very moral writer, he seeks a way out, but religious, yes mystical to the problem of the protagonist. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (in this novel the phenomenon I mentioned, who believes me, or the mass, occurs. You decide.) But at last, let's talk about "There is no greater love", which belongs to what my father calls as sacramental medicine, and despite some heterodoxy, follows the scheme of the two essential writers of this genre we mean the A.J. Cronin of the "City" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... and what for me is a tragedy, that is not better known in the United States, and that has almost no translations into English. He himself wasn't a doctor, but the novel I'm going to tell you about is about doctors, and by the way he wrote it, to reconcile with his father. I mean, what for me is my favorite novel . Of the 1935 books I've read as Goodreads this would be my second favorite book (let them guess which one is the first) I mean the fabulous "Bodies and Souls" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... This is a book, which you should read, even once in a lifetime. Even if you're not interested in medicine. Of course, then you can do whatever you want. I've always been very dogmatic, I'm not going to fool anyone, but I would never force anyone to do anything, which I wouldn't want to do. As St. John Paul II says "Ideas are proposed, they are not imposed" https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... These writers embody what I know as a group of novelists, who write, about doctors from a Christian humanistic perspective. The good thing about such writers is that their moral dilemmas, which challenge the reader to meet his conscience. In fact, this novel by a doctor who is a surgeon, and practices transplants (when the life expectancy of the patient, who did it to him was very short). The pioneer of these practices was the wretched Alexis Carrel https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... who, despite his conversion, summed up his career, working for the Vichy government. Perhaps the only flaw I see in this novel is that there are two subplots, and that the doctor's plot is better than the nurse's, although both are extraordinary. The doctor is friends with Cuban refugees exiled from the Batista dictatorship, not the Castro. With all this nuance, I believe, that the Cuban community will like so many in the United States. The family is called Heart, and older brother Michael is an integrated, courageous prosecutor, who pursues the Mafia, and who has a younger brother with Down syndrome named Arthur, who adores him. Maybe this is what I liked most about the novel. The beautiful character that Arthur was. At a time when we all love them very much, but since we don't want to charge ourselves, we sacrifice them through abortion, or other therapies from the death industry. Despite the courageous defense lejeune made https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... the discoverer of Down Syndrome, and it cost him the Nobel Prize, although his unveilings may have led to an even greater prize, and certainly more deserved. I have not met many people with Down syndrome, but who has known them have told me, that they are very affectionate, and that they are the ones who give joy to the house, and it will be difficult to find a more affectionate character, than Arturo Corazón. The first dilemma in this story is that the mafia has machine-gunned Michael, and needs a liver, and no donor is found. The second dilemma is also interesting. The nurse who is a feminist woman (of good no of feminism manipulated by the left) receives a commission that she cannot refuse and is to care for an Arab princess from an allied United States country, but the princess suffers an accident, and is left in brain death, but the fetus is still alive, and Frank G. Slaughter's address is to do. . The two solutions, put forward by Frank G. Slaughter, are very brave. There's a case, that, no matter how much you want a person, you can't do what this character does. For it is incompatible with Christian morality. But without that gesture there would be no novel. It reminded me of Will Smith's film in the film Seven Souls. Anyway, we can't accept this option here. https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film1... , but I must admit, that this ending touched me immensely, and made me shed some tears. It reminded me at the end of Ayako Miura's wonderful novel "A Christian Samurai" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Now that we give it that we turn the great evil, which is in the world, we should also stop to think otherwise. In goodness, which remains in him. The other subplot is resolved in a completely consistent way with our beliefs. Of course the religiosity of the story is sincere, in fact, the title of this novel is drawn from a title of St. Juan, and although Frank G. Slaughter is not Catholic. The treatment, which receives the Catholic religion personified in Father Mulcahy is very positive. A novel as wonderful as this could only end up giving rise to a life. I hope Goodreads users will give it a try, because just like Actea's maid in "The Glorious Folly" won't be able to forget such a pure, and good book.

[Aida Cogollor · Rating 1 out of 5]

Me lo prestó una compañera, pensando que me iba a gustar, pero no. Con tanto vocabulario médico y la trama que no es lo mío, me he aburrido tanto que lo he leído casi en diagonal.

[Stella Heuer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent storyline...enjoyed it.

[Noelia Gamboa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entretenido si quieres una lectura corta y amena. Muy esperado final para mi gusto.