["Air Surgeon"] is hardly a book to give to a friend in the hospital. Dr. Frank G. Slaughter is not only one of the best of the medical novelists now at work, he is incomparably the most graphic and detailed. When you have watched an operation over Dr. Slaughter's shoulder you have seen more of its essential technique and grasped more of its significance than you would be likely to get from the first row in the amphitheatre.

Accordingly "Air Surgeon" is not for the excessively tender-minded. The reader who likes to know what goes on behind the scenes in medicine—and judging by the popularity of books by the about doctors he must exist in thousands—should be urged not to miss it….

"Air Surgeon" has plenty of plot. Most of it is rather melodramatic in hue and could be translated to the screen with a minimum...