Used paperback in fair condition. Cover damaged at top and bottom of spine, pages in good condition. Price rubber stamp on flyleaf and ink signature on title page. 192 pages. Published by Signet Books, 1959. ISBN n/a.

Vito was a VIP in crime, a kingpin of vice, a big wheel in the Syndicate, a brutal businessman who called the odds and made them stick.

When he was caught on a tax rap and deported to Italy he just took up where he left off. He set up his rackets and lived in luxury with all the twisted pleasures and women dirty money could buy.

To Johnny Cella, a straight guy swept up in the mobster's net, Vito offered a choice. It wasn't much but it was the only choice Johnny had: he could work in the filthiest racket of all or he could die.