Kaptain, a story based wholly on fact with only names and places changed, and one, we feel honored to publish.

Police brutality is no longer regarded as a questionable torture once practiced behind the impregnable bastilles built by the taxpayer and called Police Headquarters, or City Hall. Massive newspaper and magazine exposes, along with concerned civic-minded people have brought such horrors to light, proving that inhuman cruelties which might have shamed the tribunal inquisitors of old, were, and are, in too many instances, the rule rather than the exception. Although great crusades are afoot to eliminate these police-state, storm-trooper tactics, it is still a known fact that in certain sections of our own great nation – especially in the smaller cities where little corrupt empires of graft and deplorably crooked politics flourish – that unbelievable brutality is the applied
procedure in attaining local law enforcement ends.

This is a factual account – but clothed in fiction – despicable horror in Kaptain. As publishers who have, and will continue to unveil the little known, the questionable, and the abominable that has plagued the innocent down through the ages, we are proud to offer this novel.

We feel it will shock you as it did us when you read of the beautiful and ambitious young wife, Marilyn Archer, who unwittingly places herself in the clutches of an evil police official, a vile man who rules mightily over a small eastern city that might have been your very hometown; or the brilliant young husband, David, who endeavors to bring the progressive theories of psychology and rehabilitation to a warped and viceridden police department.

One, having read this novel, cannot help but wonder how such men as Lew Devons, Parksburg's Chief of Police, with his massive dog, Kaptain, come into power and manage not only to maintain it, but to build and strengthen it on the taxpayer's dollar; yet, we know this to be the rule rather than the exception.