Best Selling Books by Mackinlay Kantor

"The men who flew the planes knew it was a war. behind the lines in Japan, the women know it too- flier'' wives and civilians, always waiting, always greedily and hungrily waiting for the men. And in the teeming Tokyo suburbs, the sing-song girls in the exotic gardens of Kumbawa- they knew it too. Here is a powerful and eye-opening story of American soldiers, their wives- and their women, a novel of conflict and passion by the author of Signal Thirty-two" -- Back cover.

A scoutmaster''s forty years of service in a small Iowa town.

An orphan boy, fugitive from a Spanish reformatory run by monks, is brought back to grace through a "natural miracle".

Small-town life in Iowa in the years before the World War.

Thomas always pretended his favorite menu was creamed angleworms on toast. Then one day when he also pretended he was sick enough to miss school, his family thought he deserved whatever he wanted for lunch.

An old school janitor reviews his past in relation to the many pupils he has known.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville VALLEY FORGE Poignant, tender, and powerful, VALLEY FORGE brings into sharp new focus one of the most tensely dramatic episodes of the American Revolution. With warmth and wit, compassion and sensitivity, MacKinlay Kantor evokes the flavor, pulse and texture of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, transporting the reader into the houses and workshops, kitchens and stables, parlors and bedrooms of ordinary citizens. Here are not only the soldiers of Valley Forge, but the panorama of the Revolution itself. George Washington, lamenting the remoteness and lack of valor in the Congress, anticipating new battle; the sprightly, good-humored Martha, always loyal and loving to a fau

Basis for the film Hannah Lee: An American Primitive MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville "Well," Montgomery challenged him, "how many people have you killed?" The young man stopped laughing. His face turned into black stone. "Sixty-seven." To Western cattle barons in 1899 the encroaching homesteaders were like cinders stinging their eyes. But they were legal. Even the rustlers among them seldom were brought to justice for lack of evidence. There seemed to be only one way to pry loose those on the land, and discourage others from settling: scare them off. To do just that some of the ranchers met in Pearl City in secret conclave. They agreed to hire the most notorious professional killer then known-Bus Crow. They figured that a small dose of Bus Crow would quickly clear the ranges, and keep them clear. WICKED WATER is the story of the bloody descent of Bus Crow on the homesteaders of Pearl County. It is the story, too, of the woman who loved him in spite of herself, who bowed to justice in spite of her love. Against a background of driving action, MacKinlay Kantor probes the mysteries of a killer''s mind, of the dark rebellion that made him cry: I''ll always kill. I''ll shoot them down ... get a gun and keep killing and killing. A NOVEL ABOUT A KILLER-BY THE AUTHOR OF MIDNIGHT LACE & FRONTIER