Mucker is a classic adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It tells the story of Billy Byrne, a ruthless street urchin from Chicago who is shanghaied and forced to serve on a pirate ship. When the ship is shipwrecked, Billy finds himself stranded on a remote island with a group of mutineers and a young woman who has been kidnapped by the pirates. Billy must now fight to protect the woman and his fellow castaways from the dangers of the island, including ancient samurai headhunters. As Billy struggles to survive and find his place in this strange new world, he begins to question his own identity and the values he has always held dear.