Buck MacGinnis
A tough-looking man with wiry limbs and a broken nose, MacGinnis is a New York gang leader who appears in The Little Nugget, hot on the trail of his frequent kidnapping target Ogden Ford. He had, according to Ford himself, previously attempted to kidnap the boy in 1907, in Chicago.
MacGinnis has a strong Bowery accent and a taste for mail-order suits, and despite a sizeable gang often seems keen on taking on a partner, as Peter Burns learns when MacGinnis mistakes him for "Smooth" Sam Fisher. MacGinnis is very much a man of direct and forceful action, lacking Fisher's delicate touch and thoughtful, planning nature.
MacGinnis' association with Burns is not a happy one; after a first encounter in which MacGinnis definitely has the upper hand, at a later meeting Burns tackles MacGinnis to the ground, breaking his leg in the process. He returns to the fray once it has healed, only to break it again in a nasty fall, and having been tricked out of his prize by the real Sam Fisher is assumed to have retired hurt from his chosen profession.
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