Frank G Slaughter Books in Order
Browse Frank G Slaughter books in order, with quick summaries, reading guidance, and background on his medical, historical, and biblical novels.
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Publication Order
67 books
Sangaree
by Frank G Slaughter
1920
In post-Revolutionary South Carolina, a young doctor inherits a troubled plantation and is drawn into danger, politics, and romance.
That None Should Die
by Frank G Slaughter
1941
A young doctor sets up practice in a small Southern community and quickly collides with the local medical establishment. Slaughter builds the story around idealism, stubbornness, and the cost of doing the job right.
Air Surgeon
by Frank G Slaughter
1943
Where aviation and medicine meet, a surgeon works under wartime pressure, with emergencies arriving fast and mistakes carrying a deadly cost.
Battle Surgeon
by Frank G Slaughter
1944
Slaughter puts a surgeon close to the front lines, where the chaos of war turns every operation into a race against pain, fear, and death.
A Touch Of Glory
by Frank G Slaughter
1945
A driven doctor chases one shining professional triumph, only to learn that glory in medicine can come with a steep personal price.
In a Dark Garden
by Frank G Slaughter
1946
In 1862, surgeon Julian Chisholm is stranded in Glasgow and desperate to reach the Confederacy. A marriage of convenience, battlefield surgery, and conflicting loves shape his path home.
The Golden Isle
by Frank G Slaughter
1947
Island beauty and human ambition make a volatile mix in this historical adventure, where romance and danger arrive together.
Your Body Your Mind
by Frank G Slaughter
1947
In clear, accessible nonfiction, Slaughter explores the link between physical health and mental life, showing how closely the two shape one another.
Divine Mistress
by Frank G Slaughter
1949
A powerful woman stands at the center of this historical drama, where public influence and private passion prove equally dangerous.
The Stubborn Heart
by Frank G Slaughter
1950
Back at Chisholm Hundred after the Civil War, Julian Chisholm fights to rebuild home and marriage while old desire, new money, and rising racial violence close in.
Fort Everglades
by Frank G Slaughter
1951
Set in frontier Florida, this historical adventure mixes military danger, wilderness tension, and the hard business of building a life at the edge of conflict.
The Road to Bithynia
by Frank G Slaughter
1951
Slaughter imagines Luke as both healer and apostle, tracing his path through the early Christian world where medicine, travel, and faith are tightly bound together.
East Side General
by Frank G Slaughter
1952
An urban hospital becomes the center of a packed human drama, where overworked staff face poverty, pressure, and the daily struggle to do right by patients.
Road to Bithynia
by Frank G Slaughter
1952
Slaughter imagines Luke as both healer and apostle, tracing his path through the early Christian world where medicine, travel, and faith are tightly bound together.
Storm Haven
by Frank G Slaughter
1953
In a place that promises shelter, the real storm comes from human desire, fear, and the secrets people bring with them.
The Galileans
by Frank G Slaughter
1953
Focusing on Mary Magdalene and the people around Jesus, this novel brings first-century Galilee to life through faith, longing, and radical change.
Buccaneer Surgeon
by Frank G Slaughter
1954
A doctor thrown into the violent world of buccaneers has to keep people alive while navigating treachery, sea raids, and divided loyalties.
Darien Venture
by Frank G Slaughter
1955
Set against dangerous imperial ambition, this adventure follows bold people into unfamiliar country where profit, survival, and betrayal are never far apart.
Flight From Natchez
by Frank G Slaughter
1955
Escape is only the beginning in this historical adventure, where danger follows hard on the heels of anyone trying to outrun the past.
The Healer
by Frank G Slaughter
1955
A gifted doctor tries to do good in a world crowded with pride, fear, and competing loyalties. Healing others comes at a real personal cost.
The Scarlet Cord
by Frank G Slaughter
1956
Rahab's story becomes a tense historical novel about survival, divided loyalties, and the risky courage it takes to protect the future.
The Warrior
by Frank G Slaughter
1956
On the Florida frontier, clashes between settlers, soldiers, and Seminoles force a man to choose where loyalty really lies.
The Golden Ones
by Frank G Slaughter
1957
Wealth, conquest, and belief collide in this historical adventure, where the promise of gold exposes greed as quickly as courage.
The Mapmaker
by Frank G Slaughter
1957
A man whose work is to chart the world gets pulled into a larger adventure, where ambition, discovery, and danger keep redrawing the path ahead.
Daybreak
by Frank G Slaughter
1958
After darkness and loss, this novel turns on the chance of beginning again. Slaughter builds the story around danger, emotional strain, and a fragile hope for renewal.
Deadly Lady Of Madagascar
by Frank G Slaughter
1959
Adventure, danger, and a formidable woman drive this fast-moving tale set against the exotic menace promised by the title.
Lorena
by Frank G Slaughter
1959
Love and loyalty are tested against the upheaval of the Civil War years, as private hopes keep colliding with a country breaking apart.
Shadow of Evil
by Frank G Slaughter
1959
Old sins and present danger close in together in this dark suspense novel, where respectable surfaces hide fear, guilt, and the threat of real violence.
The Crown and the Cross
by Frank G Slaughter
1959
Slaughter retells the life of Jesus on a broad canvas, balancing the public story with the human tensions around those who follow him.
The Thorn Of Arimathea
by Frank G Slaughter
1959
Set in the days after the Crucifixion, this novel follows grief, doubt, and dangerous devotion as people try to understand what Christ's death has changed.
Pilgrims in Paradise
by Frank G Slaughter
1960
Young doctor Paul Sutton joins a voyage to the Bahamas with his brother's Puritan followers. In paradise, fanaticism, rebellion, and forbidden love soon poison the dream.
The Land and the Promise
by Frank G Slaughter
1960
Rather than a single plot, this book retells major biblical stories with an eye for human drama, covenant, exile, and the long hope tied to the promised land.
Epidemic!
by Frank G Slaughter
1961
When disease begins spreading fast, doctors and officials scramble to find the source before fear outruns the illness. The outbreak becomes a test of nerve as well as science.
The Curse of Jezebel
by Frank G Slaughter
1961
Slaughter reimagines the biblical queen Jezebel as a dangerous force inside a court full of prophecy, lust, and political struggle.
David
by Frank G Slaughter
1962
This is Slaughter's sweeping take on David, from youth and battle to kingship, guilt, and the burdens that come with power.
Tomorrow's Miracle
by Frank G Slaughter
1962
An idealistic doctor stakes everything on a medical advance that could transform lives. The real battle is between hope, money, ego, and the limits of what science can deliver.
Devil's Harvest
by Frank G Slaughter
1963
A seemingly fertile place hides greed, corruption, and violence. As the stakes rise, the harvest in the title becomes less about crops than the damage people do to one another.
Upon This Rock
by Frank G Slaughter
1963
Slaughter turns to the beginnings of the Christian church, following believers forced to choose between Roman power, personal fear, and the cost of standing firm.
A Savage Place
by Frank G Slaughter
1964
Doctor Constant returns to a brutal conflict and finds that healing bodies is easier than mending a wounded society. Medicine, loyalty, and violence pull him in different directions.
Constantine
by Frank G Slaughter
1965
Slaughter retells the rise of Constantine the Great, following his wars, family struggles, and eventual turn toward Christianity as he tries to unify a battered empire.
The Purple Quest
by Frank G Slaughter
1965
A search tangled up with power, faith, and desire pulls its characters through a richly historical world where sacred meaning and worldly ambition keep colliding.
Doctors' Wives
by Frank G Slaughter
1967
The polished calm of a wealthy medical community shatters when a doctor kills his wife and her companion. What follows is a sharp look at marriages built on loneliness, status, and secrecy.
God's Warrior
by Frank G Slaughter
1967
Faith and power drive this historical drama, as a fiercely committed man moves through war, politics, and spiritual struggle with little room for compromise.
Spencer Brade, M.D.
by Frank G Slaughter
1967
Spencer Brade enters medicine with skill and idealism, then learns how quickly real patients, hard choices, and professional rivalries can test both.
Flaming Frontier
by Frank G Slaughter
1968
On a violent frontier, land, power, and survival are always up for grabs. Slaughter mixes action, romance, and historical conflict in a story shaped by fire and expansion.
The Sins of Herod
by Frank G Slaughter
1968
Set in Rome and the world of the early church, this historical novel explores ambition, tyranny, and the dangerous overlap of royal politics and religious change.
War Surgeon
by Frank G Slaughter
1968
A battlefield surgeon works where every minute matters and every operation can turn personal. War strips life down to duty, fear, and the will to keep one more patient alive.
Puritans in Paradise
by Frank G Slaughter
1969
Young doctor Paul Sutton sails to the Bahamas with a band of Puritans led by his fanatical brother. In the new settlement, faith, power, and forbidden love turn explosive.
Surgeon's Choice
by Frank G Slaughter
1969
A major medical breakthrough promises new hope, but it also forces surgeons to choose how much risk, ego, and ethics they are willing to live with.
Countdown
by Frank G Slaughter
1970
A ticking-clock emergency pushes doctors, officials, and families toward impossible choices. Slaughter builds the suspense around whether skill and nerve can outrun time.
Sword and Scalpel
by Frank G Slaughter
1970
During the Korean War, Captain Scott must use both courage and surgical skill after captivity turns survival into a daily test. It is a war novel about medicine, loyalty, and sacrifice.
Code Five
by Frank G Slaughter
1971
Jud Tyler returns from the Army to the decaying St. Luke's Hospital and finds a city in crisis. To save the hospital, he has to face corruption, unrest, and his own damaged hands.
Convention, M.D.
by Frank G Slaughter
1972
A major medical convention becomes a battleground for rivalries, ambition, and bruised egos. Behind the speeches and handshakes, careers and alliances start to crack.
Surgeon, U. S. A
by Frank G Slaughter
1973
A hard-driving surgeon finds that saving patients is only part of the job when bureaucracy, public pressure, and personal loyalties keep intruding on medical decisions.
Lifeblood
by Frank G Slaughter
1974
In the pressure cooker of modern medicine, the very thing that keeps patients alive becomes the source of crisis. Slaughter turns blood, duty, and fear into fast-moving hospital drama.
Women in White
by Frank G Slaughter
1974
At Biscayne University Medical Center, doctors and nurses live almost entirely inside the hospital world. Disease, distrust, ambition, and private longing make every case more dangerous.
Deep is the Shadow
by Frank G Slaughter
1975
Secrets from the past cast a long, damaging shadow over the present in this tense drama of fear, memory, and hidden motives.
The Stonewall Brigade
by Frank G Slaughter
1975
A Civil War surgeon moves with Jackson's famed brigade through brutal campaigns where battlefield medicine, divided loyalties, and personal passion all come under fire.
Plague Ship
by Frank G Slaughter
1976
An ancient tomb high in the Andes releases a plague organism that modern medicine cannot stop. Doctors race across borders to find an antidote before the outbreak turns global.
Devil's Gamble
by Frank G Slaughter
1977
Reporter Janet Burke survives a plane crash and emerges with a rebuilt face and a new life. Then the evil tied to dead terrorist Lynne Tallman seems to follow her into a terrifying supernatural struggle.
Buccaneer Doctor
by Frank G Slaughter
1978
Another sea-swept medical adventure, this time with a doctor caught between piracy, survival, and the rough loyalties of the Caribbean.
The Passionate Rebel
by Frank G Slaughter
1979
A proud outsider refuses the life other people have planned for him. Love, ambition, and social pressure turn that defiance into trouble for everyone nearby.
Gospel Fever
by Frank G Slaughter
1980
A hugely popular TV evangelist becomes the center of a sharp drama about faith, fame, money, and the private compromises hidden behind a holy public image.
Doctor's Daughters
by Frank G Slaughter
1981
Heart-surgery legend Theo Malone wants one last triumph and a son to carry his name. His three talented daughters, all doctors themselves, refuse to stay in his shadow.
Doctors at Risk
by Frank G Slaughter
1983
At a glittering new medical center, microsurgeon Mark Harrison looks unstoppable. But easy access to drugs threatens his hands, his career, and every patient who trusts him.
No Greater Love
by Frank G Slaughter
1985
Transplant surgeon Ted Bronson and his partner Liz, a respected gynecologist, seem to have everything under control. Then Liz is pulled into an international plot while Ted finds the Mafia closing in on him.
Transplant
by Frank G Slaughter
1986
Separated as infants, twins Henry Walters and Bart Bartlemy meet again years later, only for a car crash to kill Bart and leave Henry changed by a startling transplant. As Henry digs into his brother's life, identity itself starts to blur.
Where should I start?
If you want Civil War drama and a doctor at the center: In a Dark Garden → The Stubborn Heart
If you prefer hospital politics and medical suspense: Doctors' Wives → Women in White → Doctors at Risk
If you like high-stakes medicine and outbreaks: Code Five → Epidemic! → Plague Ship
If you want biblical and early church fiction: Constantine → Upon This Rock → The Sins of Herod
Author bio
Frank G Slaughter was born in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 1908. When he was about five, his family moved to a farm near Berea, not far from Oxford, North Carolina. That early mix of rural life, hard work, and close observation stayed with him.
He moved quickly through school. Slaughter earned his bachelor's degree from Trinity College, now Duke University, at just 17, then went on to Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore. He trained as a surgeon, and for a while medicine looked like the main story of his life.
Then writing pushed its way in. In 1935, while he was working at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, he bought a 60-dollar typewriter and paid for it in monthly installments. He started writing fiction at night, between the demands of hospital work and ordinary family life.
He rewrote That None Should Die six times before a publisher finally took it.
That stubborn beginning tells you a lot about him. He liked work. He liked craft. He did not seem especially interested in waiting around for inspiration to feel glamorous.
His medical background never left the books. Novels like Doctors' Wives, Plague Ship, and Transplant use hospitals, epidemics, and surgical innovation not just as scenery but as the engine of the plot. Readers came for the suspense, but many stayed because Slaughter knew how doctors talk, how institutions work, and how one technical decision can suddenly become a moral one.
But he was never only a medical novelist. He also wrote historical and biblical fiction, including In a Dark Garden, Constantine, and Upon This Rock. Across those books, he kept returning to people under pressure, surgeons, soldiers, rulers, believers, and families trying to do one decent thing while history closed in around them.
Some of that pressure came from his own experience. During World War II, he served as an Army surgeon. After the war, he turned to writing full time and kept up a remarkably steady pace for decades, publishing more than sixty books. On some of his historical novels he also worked with William DuBois, a quiet collaboration that helped widen the range of his backlist.
He wrote like someone used to long hours.
By the end of his career, his books had sold more than 60 million copies. Several reached the screen, including Sangaree, The Warrior, and Doctors' Wives. Jacksonville remained home for much of his adult life, and he died there on May 17, 2001. He left behind a huge body of work, and it still gives a clear picture of what made him popular, urgency, research, and a working doctor's feel for how fragile people can be.
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