The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket).
Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas Jacket which can be tightly laced so as.
A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder.
It is science fiction, and involves both mysticism and reincarnation.
The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket)