Lay Down Your Guns, Greg R. Taylor
Lay Down Your Guns, Greg R. Taylor
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Lay Down Your Guns
One Doctor’s Battle for Hope and Healing in Honduras

Author: Greg R. Taylor

Narrator: Zilah Mendoza

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2017

Synopsis

In Honduras’ “wild west” mountain jungles, Amanda Madrid found her calling as a medical doctor to poor farmers.When Amanda’s father rejects her dream to be a doctor, eighteen-year-old Amanda strikes out alone and enters medical school in Tegucigalpa.Her work as a medical officer, public health consultant, and director of an international holistic Christian ministry called Predisan could have resulted in prestigious luxury for her. Instead these experiences led Dr. Madrid to the mountains on horseback and prepared her for the biggest challenge of her life.When illegal drug trafficking and murders lead to closing medical clinics, Dr. Madrid goes toe to toe with cartel mercenaries, the unarmed doctor in her signature red high heels against men in combat boots armed with AK-47s.This is the story about the life of a Honduran doctor heartbroken about the many killings and bad medicine of cartels. Can the same kind of love and prayer she gives her patients also cause these violent men to lay down their guns?

About Greg R. Taylor

Greg R. Taylor was born in in 1967 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He studied journalism at Harding University, then spent several years living in Italy and Uganda. His writing has appeared in Christianity Today, Publishers Weekly, and others, as well as in his own books. He lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his wife and children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on April 05, 2014

Lay Down Your Guns is the thirty-third book I have read from Goodreads. I really enjoyed this book by author Creg R. Taylor. I found it very interesting how Dr.Amanda Madrid 's grew up in a small town in Honduras, and how as a young girl age seven, she went to Good Friday procession and fiesta witho......more

Goodreads review by John on January 14, 2014

A biography (almost a hagiography) of a courageous evangelical Honduran woman doctor who despite odds became a doctor, fulfilled her dream of working with alcoholics, directs a major medical system (involving health workers) in rural Olancho, the Wild West of Honduras. The chapters on confrontations......more

Goodreads review by Mica on September 09, 2017

The timeline for this book was all over the place; typically, flashbacks into a protagonist's formative years are used as an effective tool to lay groundwork for a career or decision later in life, but the flashbacks in this book didn't seem to offer any insight. The vignettes of her life seemed ver......more

Goodreads review by Jean on May 07, 2022

Honduras - round the world reading challenge. Interesting subject, writing a little choppy......more

Quotes

“Riveting tales of Dr. Amanda Madrid’s bold heroism in the face of adversity.” Publishers Weekly

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