The Fighting Fool

'The Fighting Fool' is an adventure novel written by Perley Poore Sheehan. The story follows an American man named Shattuck, who at the beginning of the story was somewhere in the midriff of Asia–Himalaya country–Pamirs–Hindu Kush. That one of those gossamer billows of blue and white off there to the north might be the Tien Shan–that is, the Heavenly Mountains, as the Chinese called them. In a general way, he was headed for China. China to Shattuck almost meant the United States. He'd passed his boyhood there–in Canton, Shanghai, Tientsin–where his father had lived and traded.