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...