The Mucker
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Description
Edgar Rice Burroughs pairs two serial tales in this volume: The Mucker from 1914 and its sequel, The Return of the Mucker, from 1916. Chicago street tough Billy Byrne starts as a gang hand who knows saloons and police by first name. A chain of crimes and flights then pulls him far from the alleys where he grew up.
Byrne is shanghaied, wrecked, and tested among strangers who judge him by his fists and his nerve. Slowly he learns steadier loyalties and a code beyond the gang. Burroughs keeps the pace fast, with fights, escapes, and last-minute turns, while tracing one rough man toward a harder, better self.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 690 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |