Mark of Zorro

In sun-drenched Spanish California, power belongs to the sword-wielding caballeros who treat the common people as less than dirt. Into this corrupt world rides a masked avenger. Don Diego de la Vega is a wealthy young aristocrat who pretends to be a foppish coward, but behind the mask, he's Zorro: a lightning-fast swordsman with a wit sharper than his blade and a passion for punishing the cruel. When a tyrannical governor begins squeezing the poor farmers and villagers around early Los Angeles, Zorro answers with daring midnight raids, a signature 'Z' carved into his enemies, and justice delivered at swordpoint. The authorities hunt him relentlessly, but the fox always remains one step ahead. This is the story that launched a century of legend, pulse-quickening adventure fiction that invented the masked vigilante and made California romance itself.