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The Four Stragglers
by Frank L. PACKARD (1877 - 1942)Book II Chapter 7 The Fight
This thrilling novel teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. It opens during WWI with a few allied soldiers lost at night behind German lines. One of them shoots at another in the darkness. Members of a criminal gang before the war, the men resume their unlawful activities when peacetime returns. The gang’s leader receives a letter that results in his leaving London for a small island off the Florida Keys. He is “as clever a scoundrel and as miserable, inhuman and unscrupulous a one as ever blasphemed the image in which God made him… He is without conscience, ruthless, a fiend who would do honour to hell itself." Frank L. Packard authored many popular novels, several of which were made into movies, including a series in which he originated the idea of a heroic crime fighter with a secret double identity. --Lee Smalley
Listen next episodes of The Four Stragglers:
Book II Chapter 8 The Message , Book III Chapter 2 The Bronze Key , Book III Chapter 3 The Warp and the Woof , Book III Chapter 4 The Time-Lock of the Sea , Book III THE PENALTY Chapter 1 The White Shirt Sleeve