Word: claud
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...hero is a young rascal named Michael Cullen, who lies and steals as a matter of course. Still, he also manages to suggest that these are merely tactics of self-defense in a world ruled by criminals far worse than he. For example: Claud Moggerhanger, a vice lord who employs Michael as his chauffeur, and Jack Leningrad, who recruits Michael to the gold-smuggling ring that he operates from inside his iron lung. Of him Moggerhanger remarks, "I'll smash his lung to pieces and watch him die like a fish on his own floor...