The Enemy

by George Randolph Chester

Billy Lane, a young architect, attempts to rehabilitate an elderly alcoholic who was once a pioneering architect/engineer, and falls in love with the man's estranged daughter. Billy is himself falling into the habits of alcoholism. Made into a movie of the same title in 1916.

362 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1915

About the author

Was a reporter for the Detroit News and Sunday Editor of the Cincinnati Inquirer until he became a successful magazine and newspaper-syndicate writer. In the early 1920s he was briefly a movie director. He wrote many of his books and plays in collaberation with his second wife, Lillian.