SHIELD FOR MURDER is a hard-hitting story about a rogue cop who ran with the hare while he hunted with the hounds — and so caught himself in the squeeze between the underworld and the law. Barney Nolan had a long record with the force. Some of it...
Steve Retnick is being released from Sing Sing after serving a five year sentence for second degree murder. Steve is an ex-cop who was framed for the killing of a would be union leader and who now has only one objective in life... to exact vengeance...
Murder was in the air. A cop had killed himself, and every crook in town knew that would be sure to bring on THE BIG HEAT. Why did they fear a dead man? Dave Bannion, homicide sergeant, fought for the answer to that question. He got it... Then the...
A riveting novel of power, passion and intrigue, from the author of Soldiers of ’44. Harry Selby knows disturbingly little about the father he never met — until he comes to Summitt City, a chillingly efficient “planned” city where his...
A whole generation has passed since The Young Lions and The Naked and the Dead, since the appearance of a novel worthy of a place in the literary roll call of the Second World War. Now, in Soldiers of ’44, Sergeant Buell (“Bull”) Docker,...
Mike Beecher was afraid of too many things to be dangerous any more. He had stayed for two years in the Spanish village because problems could be passed off with a shrug, another drink. To the ruthless conspirators, however, Mike’s skills made him...
Every man, and every community, has its breaking point. This is the arresting and powerful idea which is examined by William P. McGivern in his new novel, Savage Streets. The suburban development of Faircrest had seemed a model of contemporary...
The rogue cop was a good cop — smart, brave, experienced. But there was dirt on his hands. The dirt came from his association with the underworld — with Ackerman, numbers king, and other racketeers. These paid the rogue cop well for the cover-up...
Here is brilliantly executed narrative of two human beings caught in the terrifying grip of their own hatreds and fears. On an immediate level this is a powerful novel of violence and suspense, but in a more significant area it casts a surgically...