Bantan Defiant

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.