The boy was raised in a city known for its roses but it was really a city of graft and corruption. This environment infiltrated into the clubs and taverns which were the boy's surroundings. The former 'tavern kid', returns after a stint in San Quentin prison and tries to learn the truth about his parents supposedly involvement in the rackets and his sister's reasons for never returning to the Rose City. The development of a child into a juvenile delinquent, then a criminal, then an ex-convict who becomes lost in the world he was raised in. This is the story of how one criminal slowly found his way out of darkness and into the light of a life.
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