Active Service Book

I thought this would be a fun collection of short stories written early in London's life. London himself was an oyster pirate, as the oyster beds in the San Francisco Bay were privatized. He then went on to work for the opposition; the fish patrols sailed throughout the bay busting Chinamen with fishnets with illegal mesh, and angry greeks who shoot with no notice. In Haley's biography, which I am reading now, these exploits seemed fairly amazing. Sadly, London's depictions devolve into muddy action sequences which all suffer the same predictable conclusion. I mostly find this interesting due to my location in San Francisco; I never would have known these things occurred here.