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Daniel, an orphan whose parents were murdered when he was ten, is determined to make it in life through honest labour. But he meets Syracus, a honey-tongued, old criminal who is not about to mend his ways and who dearly needs him to take over his syndicate when he gets too old to run it. There is also a band of undergraduate hoodlums who for their own reason, need him in their mob as just dearly. Hounded at every turn by these evil forces and weighed down by anxiety over unknow fate of his ravishing, runaway sister, Rose, it seems just a matter of time before Daniel gives up. But providence has interest in the matter and once it puts its joker on table, everyone gets what he deserves in this intriguing blockbuster from the author, the master storyteller of our time. It is dripping with intrigue and suspense and its morals for youths, the ultimate casualties in the unending war between adolescent impatience and official tolerance, is unmistaken.