The Surgeon and the Warlord
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
05.08.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
338
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,8 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798190108255
A surgeon enters a war zone to save lives-only to discover that every life he saves may strengthen the man who controls the war.
Dr. Jonathan Williams is a gifted trauma surgeon, respected teacher, and grieving widower who has begun to wonder whether medicine has become merely a career rather than a calling. Seeking purpose beyond the comfortable corridors of Boston General, he accepts a humanitarian posting at an isolated hospital in the conflict-torn African Republic of Saire.
There, medicine has been stripped to its essentials. The hospital has one operating room, no CT scanner, no blood bank, unreliable power, and an endless stream of patients with nowhere else to go. When a cholera epidemic erupts, Williams and his small team must confront impossible shortages, deadly triage decisions, and the constant threat of armed violence.
But the hospital exists only because it is protected by Iskander al-Rahim, the powerful warlord who dominates the region. Its success saves civilians-but also generates loyalty, political legitimacy, and strategic advantage for his regime. After Iskander's sudden death, his educated but dangerous young son, Tariq, inherits both the conflict and its moral contradictions.
When Tariq himself becomes critically injured, Williams must decide whether medical neutrality truly means treating every patient-even a man whose survival may prolong a war. His decision draws him into a hidden struggle involving contaminated water, valuable lithium deposits, foreign intelligence agencies, corporate interests, and the uneasy boundary between humanitarian medicine and material support for terrorism.
The Surgeon and the Warlord is a literary medical and political thriller about duty, grief, courage, and unintended consequences. At its heart is a haunting question: What does a physician owe the patient in front of him when saving that patient may endanger the world beyond the operating room?
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