Peter Gudge, a lazy and penniless young man, stumbles into the aftermath of a bombing at a preparedness parade and is recruited as a secret-service informer. Paid by businessmen and the police, he spies on socialists and the Industrial Workers of the World, plants evidence and helps frame men he barely knows, all in the name of being a hundred percent American.
Sinclair’s bitter 1920 satire of the Red Scare, drawn closely from the Mooney case in San Francisco. Download the free EPUB.