David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

novelist Peter de Vries died of leukemia.
He wrote a heartbreaking novel based
on the experience called The Blood of
the Lamb. De Vries writes:
So we were back in the Children’s
Pavilion, and there was again the
familiar scene: the mothers with their
nearly dead, the false face of mercy,
the Slaughter of the Innocents. A girl
with one leg came unsteadily down
the hall between crutches, skillfully
encouraged by nurses. Through the
pane in a closed door a boy could be
seen sitting up in bed, bleeding from
everything in his head; a priest
lounged alertly against the wall,
ready to move in closer. In the next
room a boy of five was having