An edition of Sword and Scalpel (1957)

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An edition of Sword and Scalpel (1957)

Sword and Scalpel

Book Club ed.
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Larry Kirk was having trouble with his lead. For the first time in years the ace television commentator faced his typewriter with a mind empty as a cave whence even the bats have fled.'' .....

''...Ten minutes ago he had used the oldest of his self-starters...the summary, the reduction of an unanswered question to its essence.'' ...

''He read that summary over now...'' ''It made a neat block of type in the center of an empty page:

''Tomorrow, in San Franciso's Presidio, Captain Paul Scott of the Army medical Corps, fresh from two years in a Chinese prisoner-of-war camp, faces court-martial for treason. HOW it happened is a question all too easily answered: everyone is familiar with the techniques of the enemy brain-washers. The burning question is WHY.''

Publish Date
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
285

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Cover of: Sword and Scalpel
Sword and Scalpel
June 1979, Ulverscroft Large Print
Hardcover - Large Prnt edition
Cover of: Sword and Scalpel
Sword and Scalpel
June 1, 1973, Pocket Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Sword and scalpel
Sword and scalpel
1968, Jarrolds
in English
Cover of: Sword and scalpel.
Sword and scalpel.
1961, Arrow Books
in English
Cover of: Sword and scalpel
Sword and scalpel
1958, Pocket Books
in English
Cover of: Sword and Scalpel
Sword and Scalpel
1957, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - Book Club ed.
Cover of: Sword and scalpel.
Sword and scalpel.
1957, Jarrolds
in English

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Published in

Garden City, USA

Edition Notes

*Manufactured in the U.S.A.* /

Copyright Date
1957 by Sword and Scalpel

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.S63165 Sw, PS3537.L38 Sw

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
285 p. [3p.bk unnumb]
Number of pages
285
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.5 x .75 inches
Weight
1 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6221313M
Internet Archive
swordscalpel00slau
LCCN
57006295
OCLC/WorldCat
778917958, 6159942, 421920694
Library Thing
390948
Goodreads
39313472

Work Description

ABOUT 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.

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Larry Kirk was having trouble with his lead. For the first time in years the ace television commentator faced his typewriter with a mind empty as a cave whence even the bats have fled.'' .....

''...Ten minutes ago he had used the oldest of his self-starters...the summary, the reduction of an unanswered question to its essence.'' ...

''He read that summary over now...'' ''It made a neat block of type in the center of an empty page:

''Tomorrow, in San Franciso's Presidio, Captain Paul Scott of the Army medical Corps, fresh from two years in a Chinese prisoner-of-war camp, faces court-martial for treason. HOW it happened is a question all too easily answered: everyone is familiar with the techniques of the enemy brain-washers. The burning question is WHY.''
Page 1, added by ED Power.

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