Rascal Billy

Billy Byrne is a product of Chicago's underbelly. He has never worked—only robbed. He has never shown compassion—only hit. His world is filled with dark corners and disdain for everyone wearing clean collars. Such a person has no soul. Or does he? Hiding from justice, Billy becomes a sailor and ends up on a ship crewed by rascals so notorious that even he, a seasoned tough guy, has to keep his wits about him. At sea, they capture a yacht with a young aristocrat on board—a girl from a world Billy has grown to hate. Against the backdrop of storms and hurricanes, and later clashes with natives on a lost island in the ocean, a true transformation of the Chicago rogue begins. In the second book, "Hard-Boiled Criminal," Billy Byrne returns to Chicago to clear his name of a false murder charge and start a new life. But the law is deaf to the truth: trial, life sentence, a daring leap from a prison train—and Billy is on the run again. Together with his new friend, a drifter poet nicknamed Bridge, he flees to Mexico, engulfed in the flames of revolution. There, amidst bandits and self-proclaimed generals, new adventures and trials await him, with the whistling of bullets and wild horse races. As well as a meeting with the one for whom he once decided to change his life.