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    The Mucker: The Mucker Series, book 1
    The Mucker: The Mucker Series, book 1
    The Mucker: The Mucker Series, book 1
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    The Mucker: The Mucker Series, book 1

    Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Narrated by Gene Engene

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    Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago’s ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. “Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough.” He is not chivalrous nor kind, and has only meager ethics—never giving evidence against a friend or leaving someone behind. He chooses a life of robbery and violence, disrespecting those who work for a living. He has a deep hatred for wealthy society. He trains as a prizefighter but cannot stop drinking.

    When falsely accused of murder, he flees to San Francisco and is shanghaied aboard a ship. Ironically, enforced sobriety, brutal ship’s discipline and productive work improved him. The ship’s secret mission is soon enacted—the hijacking of a specific yacht to take a millionaire’s daughter, Barbara Harding, for ransom. Billy Byrne brutally beats her suitor, Billy Mallory, leaving him for dead. “He knew that she looked down upon him as an inferior being. She was of the class that addressed those in his walk of life as ‘my man.’" After Barbara confronts him and calls him a coward, a change begins in Billy Byrne. He saves the life of one kidnapper, Theriere, rather than letting him be washed overboard, though he cannot fathom his own reasons. After a terrible storm, the ship is damaged and only makes it to land with Billy’s help at the wheel. He rescues Barbara from the wreck and brings her ashore. Barbara is kidnapped by headhunters descended from medieval Japanese. Byrne and Theriere race to rescue her from the daimyo’s hut in the middle of the village, but Theriere is fatally wounded in the escape.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateJun 22, 2017
    ISBN9781614539483
    The Mucker: The Mucker Series, book 1
    Author

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950) worked many odd jobs before professionally writing. Burroughs did not start writing until he was in his late 30s while working at a pencil-sharpener wholesaler. But after following his call to writing, Burroughs created one of America's most enduring adventure heroes: Tarzan. Along with his novels about Tarzan, Burroughs wrote the notable Barsoom series, which follows the Mars adventurer John Carter.

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      I just love Edgar rice, it’s worth your time