Code Red

by Andrew J. Drain

Genres: Christian

101 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2010

Reviews

[Graham · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short read told from the point of view of an Irish surgeon, practising in New York, who discovers that he's dying from leukaemia. The book is resolutely matter-of-fact and the author's incredible strength comes from his belief in God. There's no weariness or burdened feeling to the prose, it's simply fact-based and unemotional. Mixed in with the memoir-style writing are a couple of sermons about the Book of Job and how the author finds solitary with the character of Job and his sufferings. It's a very short book which, I think, stands well as a legacy of one man's closeness to God.

[Sheila]

Rec by Steve Midgley on speaking about death. Why it's hard, when should we speak of these things, how and what.


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[David Campton · Rating 4 out of 5]

A slim tome covering 2 huge but inter-related subjects: the book of Job and the life and terminal illness of cardiothoracic surgeon Andrew Drain. I knew Andrew slightly from school days and he was a close friend of my nephew, so that lent this book an immediacy that might be lost on others, but this is a short, yet worthwhile and easy read, appropriate for pastors, preachers, medical practitioners and those experiencing chronic illness.