The Outlaw of Torn
1927
England, 1264. The Second Barons' War tears the kingdom apart, and in the chaos, a masked horseman rides through legend. He is the Outlaw of Torn, a teenage brigand with a silver visor and a deadly sword, fighting alongside rebel Simon de Montfort against King Henry III. He has no memory of his birth, only the rough kindness of the foster father who raised him in the forest. Then he meets de Montfort's daughter and falls into forbidden love. Then he discovers he bears the face of the king's heir, Prince Edward. And then comes the truth: he is not a foundling but a prince himself, stolen as an infant, a doppelganger whose very existence threatens the royal bloodline. Burroughs wrote this tale of lost identity, rebellion, and romance with the same propulsive energy that would later fuel Tarzan. It is pulp historical fiction at its finest: a boy who becomes a legend, a kingdom at war with itself, and the terrible truth that can reshape a kingdom.
