BANTAN OF THE ISLANDS (Bantan #1)

The story opens with Arthur Delcourt, an American millionaire business man, who, with his wife and three-year-old son, have chartered a yacht and are enjoying a much delayed honeymoon cruise. Following a tropical storm, the yacht strikes a derelict and is wrecked. Arthur Delcourt meets his death when the boats are taken to, but his wife and little son are more fortunate, for they manage to clamber aboard a bit of wreckage. The following day the woman sights a beautiful island; but when the bit of wreckage is gripped by the surf, the woman is devoured by a shark. The child, however, is more fortunate, for he reaches the shore in safety. He, a mere child of three, is the survivor of the fittest! And thus begins a new life for the little waif, for he is found and adopted by Beneiro, the chief of the native village, who believes the child is an answer to recent prayers to the village god, Tsara. The child is named Bantan, meaning white child of the sea of unknown parents.

Hardcover w/dust jacket:
6 x 9 inch
370 pages
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6 x 9 inch
370 pages
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BANTAN AND THE ISLAND GODDESS (Bantan #2)

This new book is a fitting sequel to "Bantan of the Islands" and it recounts the further adventures of the author's South Pacific island hero. Continuing where the first book ended, new surprises await the reader.

While on board the Well Wisher and returning for home, Bantan learns the estate that was his to claim upon his return to America, had been squandered by the trustees. Realizing there was nothing for him in America, and possessed of inherent pride, despite his love for Leona Brown, he cannot allow himself to live on charity. That same night he leaves the yachet in a lifeboat, intent upon returing to the Beneiro Island where riches did not matter. He becomes lost upon the bosom of the ocean and when near death is stranded upon one of a group of seven islands.

There he is found by a Marja warrior and brought to the village hut of a Doctor Hunter, an American doctor, who had been marooned there twenty-one years before. With his beautiful daughter, Kalma, whose mother had been a Marja princess, they restore Bantan to health. Suffering from amnesia, Bantan remembers nothing of his past. Because he cannot remember his name, Kalma renames him Malka.

Trayman returns to the Marja Island and informs Doctor Hunter and Kalma of Bantan's strange actions. The doctor and his daughter are positive Bantan has recovered his lost memory.

Hardcover w/dust jacket:
6 x 9 inch
312 pages
$29.95

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6 x 9 inch
312 pages
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BANTAN DEFIANT (Bantan #3)

Bantan is in action again! Readers throughout the United States who remember the heroic exploits of the bronzed young American who became a South Sea Island chieftain, will be delighted with this latest book in the famous Bantan series. For now Bantan deals with the greatest challenge of his life: World War II is in the offing, and the Japanese invade Marja Island.

This is a story of bows-and-arrows against machine guns; of steely fingers closing around the throats of sentinels upon a destroyer; of whole villages being razed and their inhabitants put to torture; of Bantan posing as a castaway to deceive the villainous Captain Joho; of fierce tropical storms and equally fierce human passions. You will meet old friends in BANTAN DEFIANT: Dr. Hunter; Leona Brown; Mr. Devine; Bantan's stalwart Beneiro and Marja companions. But most of all you will thrill at the sight of Bantan himself stalking through the night, poised to sweep down with tremendous fury upon the alien bespoilers whom he has sworn a might oath to the Unknown God to destroy.

BANTAN DEFIANT is an adventure novel in the finest traditions of Edgar Rice Burroughs and J. Rider Haggard. It will keep you breathless with excitement.

Hardcover w/dust jacket:
6 x 9 inch
334 pages
$29.95

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6 x 9 inch
334 pages
$19.95