"A book about 'the sins of the fathers.' . . . A gritty, troubling book."--The Honolulu Advertiser

"The other Hawai'i, the one tourists never get to see."--Ian MacMillan

Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He's tough looking, a hard case, observes his cellmate Cal--the mute tattoo artist of the prison, a wife murderer. SYN, a gang symbol, is tattooed on his hand, and he has a Japanese emblem inscribed on his left shoulder. He asks Cal for a tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi's Book of the Void.

While he is being worked...

Waifs of War is the second book written by Chris Mc Kinney, and is a follow on to her very successful, 'Sweet Violets, 'describing the events and happenings on the children's arrival home from Gainsborough, after living two years of torture and horrendous beatings at the hands of their billeter. Once again Chrissie and her brother find they are not welcome even in their own home by their mother this time, who after having another child, said she could not cope with three children and a war, and suggested after a short break at home they must return to their billet, choosing to dismiss the...