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As an honest cop, Captain Lanny Just has problems. His Police Chief and several of his men are on the take from local gangster kingpin, "Boss" Myrtle. Myrtle's daughter Bonnie is in love with Lanny, but the young policeman feels he can't pursue the relationship because of her father's criminal activities--of which Bonnie is unaware. Lanny's problems multiply alarmingly as his hometown of Freshwater is threatened by a sudden influx of murderous...

At first, the two events seem apparently unconnected--except for their violent nature. The first is the escape of four vicious convicts from Halifax Prison in North Carolina, simultaneously, in the southern state of Virginia, a vicious mob lynches and burns a man alive. But when the escaped convicts steal a car and cross the state line, it automatically brings in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As the strange interweavings of fate and coi...

Grab a beautiful girl, yank her out of her Istanbul hotel bed, and brazenly carry her into the night, clad only in pajamas. In 1953 Turkey, you can get away with that, if you have the right connections--unless professional Trouble-Buster Joe P. Heggy just happens to be looking on--and then you're set for trouble. Heggy decides to investigate, only to encounter flat-faced Turkish thugs who want to eliminate him in any way possible. But the Amer...

Russ Farran has a plush mansion and millions stashed away in the bank, all garnered from his 1950s Los Angeles aeronautics empire. But that empire is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, due to a series of persistent labor strikes that seem to be provoked by agitators. Then he encounters an old friend, a private investigator, lying next to his desk with a neat, blue-rimmed hole in his head. The cops and the feds both think that Farran did it....

She's death to men." That's what they told the American trouble-buster, Joe P. Heggy, during his visit to the island nation of Cyprus. When he hears about Charmain's past--about all the men who'd died for her--he tries to stay clear, but she won't let him. What's a man to do when the most beautiful dame on Cyprus keeps throwing herself at you? But Charmain's been involved in too many shady liaisons: her past is beginning to catch up with her, ...

Now in paperback, this is the thrilling account of the daring plan to destroy Rommel's base in Tobruk on the eve of Alamein.

The exciting story of the Royal Navy's first major success of the WW2 compiled from conversations with veterans and the Historical Branch of the Admiralty.