Librarian note: The catalog # is 40-031 on the front cover, 523-40031-9 on the spine, and "ISBN: 0-523-40-031-9" on the copyright page. However, the ISBN check-digit is incorrect. The ISBN should have been 0523400314 / 0-523-40031-4. A search finds that some dealers are using the corrected ISBN and so that was used on Goodreads.
A rash of muggings and rapes in Manhattan can be connected to a group of Satanic worshippers who intend on controlling the oil industry by kidnapping a woman who has created a synthetic oil formula.
Jim Lawrence has written fiction extensively for both children and adults in a variety of media: books, magazine articles, film and radio scripts, and comic strips, including "decision" strips. He estimates that he has written some sixty books of fiction, many of them under pen names for series like Tom Swift Jr. and Nancy Drew. His radio credits include weekly scripts for Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, The Green Hornet, and Sky King. He has written for, and in some cases created and illustrated, the comic strips Dallas, Joe Palooka, Captain Easy, Friday Foster, and Buck Rogers. To date, he has authored two works of interactive fiction: Seastalker and Moonmist.