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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.

Last updated: June 29, 2026

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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 GardenThe Stubborn Heart
If you prefer hospital politics and medical suspense: Doctors' WivesWomen in WhiteDoctors at Risk
If you like high-stakes medicine and outbreaks: Code FiveEpidemic!Plague Ship
If you want biblical and early church fiction: ConstantineUpon This RockThe 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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