Code five (1971 Hardcover) by Frank G. Slaughter . Condition is Brand New. (Old Stock) Code Five by Frank G. Slaughter is set a few years after the Vietnam War. Dr. Jud Tyler is highly decorated and one of the most respected field surgeons in the army, but now with one big flaw, while working in a field hospital in An Tha, vietnam a grenade went off, partially parilyzing him and giving him a medical condition called Aphasia. After being dispatched from the army his old friend and army asks him to come back to the hospital where he started his medical career because they are in dire need for good doctors. When he comes back to Farmingham he is shocked, in the ten years he was gone it went from a nice, quiet town to a runned down dump and St. Lukes hospital is in total chaos and its up to Jud to fix it. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.