Jack London

The Abysmal Brute illustrated Jack London

The GameOn the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter. The Abysmal BruteJack London's tale of the corruption of prize fighting -- and the one young fighter who dared to stand up against it! (