The Shadow

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men . . . ? Perhaps only a man on intimate terms with evil himself. Such a man is Lamont Cranston, cold-blooded czar of a criminal empireuntil a powerful Far Eastern mystic makes the ganglord his prisoner, and his disciiple in the occult arts that will change his life forever. Armed with the uncanny powers of cloak himself in darkness and control the minds of others, Lamont Cranston makes the crime-scourged streets of 1930's New York the battleground in a war against the dark forces he once embraced. The battle will unite Cranston with his extraordinary soul mate, Margo Lane. And it will pit him against the unspeakable Shiwan Khana brilliant madman fiulled with his ancient ancestor's lust for conquest, and appetite for annihilation . . .