Mucker Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  • The Mucker (Mucker #1)
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    The Mucker (Mucker #1)

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings · published 1914

    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 can not stop drinking... more

  • The Return of the Mucker (Mucker #2)
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    The Return of the Mucker (Mucker #2)

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1916

    Billy Byrne squared his broad shoulders and filled his deep lungs with the familiar medium which is known as air in Chicago. He was standing upon the platform of a New York Central train that was pulling into the La Salle Street Station, and though the young man was far from happy something in the nature of content pervaded his being, for he was coming home... more

  • The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Mystery & Detective (Mucker #3)
    #3

    The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Mystery & Detective (Mucker #3)

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1917

    The house on the hill showed lights only upon the first floor -- in the spacious reception hall, the dining room, and those more or less mysterious purlieus thereof from which emanate disagreeable odors and agreeable foods... more

  • The Mucker Series: The Mucker, The Return of the Mucker, The Oakdale Affair (Mucker #1-3)
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    The Mucker Series: The Mucker, The Return of the Mucker, The Oakdale Affair (Mucker #1-3)

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2004

    Two fisted action from all three Mucker novels!Billy Byrne is the Mucker. Born and brought up on the tough streets of Chicago, Billy is familiar with the hard and seedy side of life in the big city, where only the strong survive and it is a good idea to be able to terminate a disagreement with your fists. But in 'The Mucker' our hero is about to leave his familiar territory and take off on an adventure across the globe which will bring him up against a lost colony of Japanese Samurai warriors... more

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