The Mucker

"The Mucker" by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a novel published in 1914-1916. Billy Byrne is a Chicago thug who lives by violence and theft until he's shanghaed aboard a ship bound for crime. When the crew kidnaps a millionaire's daughter, Billy's brutal nature begins to transform. Stranded together in a hostile jungle filled with headhunters, the hoodlum and the heiress form an unlikely bond that challenges everything Billy believed about himself and the world he came from. (This is an automatically generated summary.)