Twinkle Twinkle, Killer Kane by William Peter Blatty [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING / 1973]

Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane by William Peter Blatty 

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1973] SIGNET BOOKS

Vintage paperback in excellent condition.  Light wear to cover.  Reads as new w/ tanning. 

Colonel Kane, a United States Marine Corps psychiatrist suffering from nightmares, arrives at a castle in the American Pacific Northwest where mentally ill soldiers from the Vietnam war are being treated. The castle's staff has been unable to control the patients, many of whom are suspected of faking their illness to get out of combat. The permissive Kane opens himself up to listen to anything the soldiers have to say to him in an effort to heal them, while at the same time suffering from his own demons.