The Healer's War

First edition, 303 pages

English language

Published November 1988 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-24828-0
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OCLC Number:
18105499
ISFDB ID:
1807

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No one could have told Lieutenant Kitty McCulley that this was what it meant to be a war nurse. No one could have told her that she was going to Vietnam, not to heal. but to ready her patients for the real pain. Not to alleviate suffering, but to become an object of contempt and misdirected lust. Not to try to save all victims, but to choose sides against people she thought she was there to help. No one could have told her. And it wouldn't have made any difference anyway.

When one of her patients, a revered holy man to the Vietnamese, gives Kitty an amulet with seemingly inexplicable powers, her world is changed forever. For the amules gives her the power to see the auras that emanate from those around her, and the auras allow her to separate the brave from the cowardly, the compassionate from the heartless, …

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