Without Remorse (John Clark, #1; Jack Ryan Universe, #1)

by Tom Clancy

Now this girl would live, and the two medics shared without words the feeling that God must have known when He had breathed life into Adam. They had defeated Death, redeeming the gift that only God could give. For this reason both had entered their shared profession, and moments like this one pushed back the rage and sorrow and grief for those patients whom they couldn’t save.

Aristotle’s rules of tragedy. The hero had to have a tragic flaw, had to drive himself to his fate. Kelly’s flaw . . . he loved too much, cared too much, invested too much in the things and the people who touched his life.