The Golden Ones

by Frank G. Slaughter

"I knew that I lay in a chamber of an inn on the road to London.... But I needed a full heartbeat before I could name my bedfellow - a lovely wench indeed, who still slept beside me in an attitude that could only be described as abandoned."

And that was about the last heartbeat Shawn MacManus, an irresistible Irish rogue, had time to count. Even abed, his uncanny resemblance to Sir Walter Raleigh was catching him up in a deadly plot, carrying him from the bedrooms of Elizabethan England to struggles for queen, glory, and gold in the New World!

202 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1957

About the author

Frank Gill Slaughter , pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor and his interest in history and the Bible. Through his novels, he often introduced readers to new findings in medical research and new medical technologies.

Slaughter was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Stephen Lucious Slaughter and Sarah "Sallie" Nicholson Gill. When he was about five years old, his family moved to a farm near Berea, North Carolina, which is west of Oxford, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College (now Duke University) at 17 and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He began writing fiction in 1935 while a physician at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.

Books by Slaughter include The Purple Quest, Surgeon, U.S.A., Epidemic! , Tomorrow's Miracle and The Scarlet Cord. Slaughter died May 17, 2001 in Jacksonville, Florida.