*WHEN THE OWL CRIES* This book is available in a variety of free downloadable formats from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40245. What reviewers had to say about _When the Owl Cries_: "As you turn the pages you ask, what next? That is the immemorial appeal of the thriller. But what gives the story stature as a work of creative art is that Mr. Bartlett has been at pains to populate it with believable characters who are stirred by intensely personal concerns." Charles Poore, _N.Y. Times_ "The book charms with its expert knowledge of place and people." Paul Engle, _Chicago Tribune_ "Vivid, impressive, highly pictorial. What makes it a pleasure to read is its marvelous vignettes of Mexican ways of life." Lon Tinkle, _Dallas News_ "Only rarely is an American writer gifted with the perception and sensitivity required to translate into English the intensity and sense of tragedy of the Latin races." Joe Knoefler, _L.A. Times_ "Mr. Bartlett has given us a powerful, unusual and haunting novel, filled with characters as real as the headlines in today’s papers, who move towards the inevitability of defeat like figures in a Greek tragedy." Gwen, _The Oxford Mail_ "A beautifully atmospheric tale..." _The Washington Post_ "A dramatic, well-written symbol of transition..." _San Jose Mercury_ "A book of substance and depth, beautifully and poetically written..." _Moberly Monitor_ "Achieves a totality of effect that reminds one of Poe..." _Wichita Falls Times_ "If you like to feel the exotic made factual, here it is..." _Saskatchewan Star_ "A lively and richly picturesque chronicle of a Mexico that was..." _Chicago Sun-Times_ "An intense struggle heightened by personal involvement, written with understanding..." _Los Angeles Examiner_ "Bartlett has pinpointed the struggle between the old order and the new, between father and son..." _Atlanta Journal_ "Articulate ... believable ... the book charms with its expert knowledge of place and people..." _Chicago Tribune_ "A skillfully written novel, interwoven with color and excitement..." _New Bedford Standard_ "A suspenseful story..." _The Diplomat_ "A story of change, love, violence and corruption that moves fast..." _Sacramento Bee_ "One of the high ranking novels of the year ... between realism and poetry ... brilliant, colorful and smooth." _Worcester Telegram_ "A penetrating novel, with wonderful scenes and rich understanding..." _Long Beach Press_ "A novel of exploitation and retribution..." _London Free Press_ "A novel of haunting significance..." _Bay St. Louis News_ "A capably written novel about a colorful land and an exciting era..." _Los Angeles Mirror_ "Filled with impressive details of landscape and Mexican life ... all presented with an artist’s eye..." _Richmond News Leader_