Shadow of the Bat

Meet The Bat, masked and cloaked avenger of justice. Who is the Bat? Garbed in black, he glides through the dark unseen, hidden by shadows, swooping forth to foil evildoers and then vanishing into the night. "He did it again. I can't wait to read the next one." Amazon Verified 5-Star Review Perfect for fans of The Shadow novels, cinema serials like SPY SMASHER, and costumed comic-book heroes like Batman, SHADOW OF THE BAT is infused with vivid, colorful pulp prose and the cliffhanger zeitgeist of Saturday matinee serials. When Professor Henry MacRaigh returns to complete work on his new "focusing disintegrator", he finds himself the target of a group of criminal geniuses and a lone master menace. Each determined to gain control of the invention, they battle to seize its incredible destructive power and threaten the world! Into this contest leaps The Bat, daring danger and death at every turn! Hurled into an electrical death-trap! Caught in a fusillade of police bullets! Pinned beneath the crushing weight of a metal press! Pitched through a third-story window towards certain death below! It'll take every resource The Bat can muster to survive these and more perils, risking his life so that others can sleep and live safely without fear, under the protective shadow of The Bat. Be ready for classic pulp writing, comic-book pacing and movie-serial action, for 13 lightning chapters of exciting cliffhanging thrills – complete with heart-stopping climaxes and daring escapes – as Charles Lee Jackson, II, modern master of pulp fiction and serials, brings you the latest volume in "The Amazing Adventures of The Bat" – SHADOW OF THE BAT