For ten years the boy-king Leopold of Lutha has been shut away in the castle of Blentz while his scheming uncle rules as regent. When the king escapes, the young American Barney Custer, visiting his mother’s homeland, turns out to be his double, and he is swept into kidnappings, sword fights, a coronation and a war on Lutha’s borders.
Burroughs’s answer to The Prisoner of Zenda, a brisk Ruritanian romp with a Midwestern hero. Download the free EPUB.