Bantan Valiant

ACTION is the trademark of the Bantan novels, and BANTAN VALIANT is no exception in this remarkable series concerning an American boy who has been marooned on a mid-Pacific island and was reared to young manhood as a native. Savage, revengeful women, led by Mazona, Waneiro woman chieftain, capture and bind Bantan to a stake to be tormented by ants before his ultimate death. How does he escape this horrible fate? An equally savage foe--the Japs--try to capture him so that they might kill him. But the grim avenger knows no defeat and his cunning brain is ever alert as he strikes back at his enemies with primitive weapons. Brief interludes of romance lighten the grim existence of a lone avenger as he metes punishment to those who caused him deep sorrow to at last emerge victorious in a desperate battle against overwhelming odds.