The Mark of Zorro

Written by Johnston McCulley

Narrated by Eden Giuliano and The Icon Players

In Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to them were derided, and the only people who mattered were the caballeros – who styled themselves as knights of the New World. These men strutted about in elegant clothes, riding magnificent horses, and sporting rapiers at their sides that they were quick to draw if they felt their honor was affronted.

Into this world burst Zorro (Spanish for “fox”). A later-day Robin Hood, he stole from the rich and gave to the poor, but he also took it upon himself to punish men who had notably abused others. Cloaked and masked, appearing suddenly from the dark, he always stayed ahead of the manhunt launched at his heels.

The authorities called him a highwayman.

And when the doings of a corrupt governor began to affect the good people around the pueblo of early Los Angeles, Zorro responded.

Produced by Devin Lawerence

Edited by Macc Kay

Production executive Avalon Giuliano

Eden Garret Giuliano, born February 2008 in Bangkok. Eden is an accomplished actor, model, narrator and rising international gymnast. He has travelled and lived on almost every continent and has been educated everywhere from the United States, rural India, Great Britain and Thailand.

Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission

©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Dec 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781662162015

Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) was an American novelist and short story writer. Born and raised in Illinois, McCulley began his career with The Police Gazette as a police reporter. During World War I, he served as a public affairs author for the United States Army. After the war, he began writing stories for such pulp magazines as Argosy and All-Story Weekly. His novel The Curse of Capistrano, serialized in 1919, marked the first appearance in print of his beloved character Zorro, a masked vigilante fighting on behalf of California’s Chicano and indigenous populations. Spawning countless adaptations for film and television, Zorro made McCulley’s name as a leading popular fiction writer of the early twentieth century.