
Freddy Booten, better known to the public as the hulking “Don Diablo,” is a self‑styled menace who makes his living by turning intimidation into ticket sales. When his manager Leo forces him into a glittering Bel Air soirée filled with earnest intellectuals, Freddy bristles at the thought of rubbing shoulders with the high‑brow crowd. Yet the night quickly turns chaotic as he encounters Panda, a striking Ph.D. with a razor‑sharp tongue, and the party erupts into a mad scramble.
A spilled drink, a flash of flame, and a sudden surge of aggression propel Freddy into a frenzied escape, his massive frame likened to a “berserk gorilla.” He bolts into his car, only to find a mysterious girl in the passenger seat urging him onward. The night’s pandemonium leaves him racing through the streets, hinting at a wild chase that will test both his brute strength and his uncanny knack for survival.
Language
en
Duration
~27 minutes (26K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Standard Magazines, Inc,1955.
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2022-10-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
A little-known early science-fiction writer, R. W. Stockheker is remembered today mainly through a handful of bibliographic records and public-domain reprints. His work sits in the fringe history of pulp-era speculative fiction, where many authors left behind stories but only the faintest trace of a personal record.
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