I love Dick Francis novels for his quietly competent (and stoically suffering!) heroes. I just reread To The Hilt, which has manful suffering under torture as well as a slightly slashy cross dressing private eye. And I don't think I've read Blood Sport, so thanks for the pointer.
Hope you're feeling better! If you're still looking for literature of consolation, Alex51324 at AO3 has a Sentinel/Guide series with lots of suffering, although I'm particularly fond of her Kas and Angel series - Angel is the Cuban American Sentinel who has to undergo army training despite being a (rather endearing) wimp who, Kas is the Guide who has done ranger training to prove he isn't as feeble as Guides are supposed to be, and the whole thing has lots of boot camp training neepery. http://archiveofourown.org/users/Alex51324/pseuds/Alex51324/works?fandom_id=273
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Date: 2014-07-12 05:32 am (UTC)Hope you're feeling better! If you're still looking for literature of consolation, Alex51324 at AO3 has a Sentinel/Guide series with lots of suffering, although I'm particularly fond of her Kas and Angel series - Angel is the Cuban American Sentinel who has to undergo army training despite being a (rather endearing) wimp who, Kas is the Guide who has done ranger training to prove he isn't as feeble as Guides are supposed to be, and the whole thing has lots of boot camp training neepery. http://archiveofourown.org/users/Alex51324/pseuds/Alex51324/works?fandom_id=273