The military has hopes to find a rare radioactive element that will make a “death ray” possible. Throughout the story we see the wealthy Lamont Cranston interacting with military figures to initiate an expedition to China. The Shadow is tracking the greater criminals to prevent a much larger crime from occurring. The story opens with the Japanese-Chinese conflict during World War II. This Shadow is also very willing to deal death to evildoers, probably a little more graphically than I prefer. He travels with Margo Lane, a prominent character in the radio series, though not as prominent in the pulps. He has the power to “cloud men’s minds” and has an alter ego of Lamont Cranston. The Shadow here borrows heavily from the radio series.
The Shadow is a vigilante, dealing justice to criminals who escape traditional justice. The Fire of Creation by Garth Ennis is a novel based on The Shadow pulp novels from the 1930’s.
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