Story Overview

The war had ended and Navy Yeoman Rudy Kernan, after spending twenty-seven months in the South Pacific, had returned to Buckton, Ohio, where he and his boyhood buddies resumed their carefree ways. But they were older now -- almost old enough to vote -- and something had been added to the mix: beer and girls. Small town life had never been so exciting. And no one was in a hurry to continue growing up. The only glum note was produced by the killer who was stalking Bucktons pretty girls.