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Ever since leaving behind the memories of his early, troubled childhood, Michael Lanyard was already on his way to becoming a notorious sneak thief. Now known only as the Lone Wolf, he is soon faced with a plethora of exciting and perilous adventures that will keep you at the edge of your seat.The Lone Wolf is one of Louis Joseph Vance's most impressive and dynamic stories. Taking place in France, it follows the life and adventures of a young boy who grows up to become a skilled thief, after having been rescued from an abusive childhood. His mentor, the kindhearted thief who had saved him, becomes a driving influence in the life of his young apprentice, eventually leading him on the path of a true hero.Vance shows us a friendly, fast-paced and remarkably unpredictable side of the thriller literature as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. The Lone Wolf is a character who constantly finds himself having to escape from the most unexpected situations, while beating the odds on his new path of redemption. He encounters the beautiful Lucia Bennon, who convinces him to turn a new leaf, attempting to return stolen jewels, while avoiding the deadly crime syndicate that wants nothing more but to eliminate him. A thrilling tale ensues in which our hero has to face numerous dangers, while his readers never really know which step will be his last. A truly fast-pace tale of action and adventure, The Lone Wolf is considered by many to be an exceptional pulp fiction novel that was quite underrated during the time of its initial publication.As years passed, however, it became more and more clear that Vance was ahead of his time with this stunning tale, and managed to create a novel that rivals the exciting adventures you would encounter in modern books and movies.

The brilliant debut of the great gentleman criminal. The origin story of the Lone Wolf, master criminal with a conscience. One rainy winter night, an orphan is abandoned to the care of a shabby Parisian inn called Troyon’s. For the next eleven years, the boy is up before dawn to clean and fetch and serve, his only respite the closet to which he retires at night and the books he pilfers from the hotel’s guests. A few francs here and there also find their way into his pockets, but not so much that anyone would notice—anyone, that is, except Bourke, the cultivated Irish thief who regularly hides out at Troyon’s. Caught red-handed, the amateur outwits the professional. Turn me over to the innkeepers, he says, and I’ll go to the police with everything I know about you. Astonished, Bourke takes the boy under his wing and teaches him how to be a master criminal. The most important lesson? Be friendless. Years later, Michael Lanyard—known to the authorities only as the Lone Wolf—is the world’s greatest jewel thief. When a ruthless gang of outlaws threatens to expose him unless he joins their “pack,” Lanyard vows to give up crime rather than violate Bourke’s code. Only a beautiful American girl and a sinister German spy stand in his way. Louis Joseph Vance’s groundbreaking series introduced a new turn of phrase to the language and gave American literature one of its most iconic characters. THE LONE WOLF

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

"Nearly forty years old, the Lone Wolf is, as his British Secret Service friend Wertheimer puts it, “superannuated.” His last adventure involved not just the surprise of meeting his grown daughter, but the twin shocks of seeing her fall in love with a secret agent and risk her own death at the hands of murderous Bolsheviks. The excitement has left Lanyard—or Monsieur Duchemin, as the British government prefers to know him—feeling slow and cranky. There is nothing to do, suggests Wertheimer, but retire from undercover work and leave England for good. Wertheimer more than suggests this, in fact; he demands it—for the Russians have made it known that they intend to kill the Lone Wolf and will tear apart London and every other corner of the British Isles to find him.Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Lanyard heads to the South of France. Hiking alone in the mountains, he goes to bed with the birds, rises with the sun, and considers what to do with the rest of his life. Visions of a dusty Parisian antique shop and Sunday afternoons with his grandchildren delight the Lone Wolf, but fate has something altogether different in store. In the eerie rock field of Montpellier-le-Vieux, he rescues a beautiful woman and her traveling party from highway bandits. Then the real danger begins."

Excerpt from The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama IT must have been Bourke who first said that even if you knew your way about Paris you had to lose it in order to find it to Troyon's. But then Bourke was proud to be Irish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.