Hard-as-nails gangster 'Big Nick' Fenner and his associate Joey have known each other since childhood, when Fenner stood by as Joey was injured by a gunshot that left him mentally impaired.
Their lives since then have been closely intertwined - but will they also end up following each other to the grave?
This grim, violent entry from the third series of classic Hank Janson novels comes complete with its stunning original Reginald Heade artwork cover, which was censored on the book’s first publication in November 1951.
A pseudonym used by Stephen Frances and Victor Norwood.
Hank Janson was the most popular and successful of British pulp fiction authors of the 1940s and 1950s. It was estimated that over five million of the author's books had been sold by 1954.
'When Dames Ge Tough' was the first Hank Janson novel in 1946 and there were around 220 featuring the tough Chicago reporter through to 'The Young Wolves' in 1968.
Many of the later novels were reputed to be the work of other authors.