Used paperback in poor condition. Front cover torn along top left at spine. Rest of cover and pages intact an in fair condition. Rubber stamped name on flyleaf and on a few random pages in book. Doesn't affect text. Ink signature on title page. 142 pages. Published by Frederick Muller Ltd, 1959. ISBN n/a.

He ordered his suits out of a mail-order catalogue. He rode around in a two-year-old Chevrolet and smoked cigars that smelled like baked rubber.

He was the boss. The boss of the sharpies. The boss of the rats. And the boss of dope and prostitution and every gambling house and dice game in the city. If he gave the word, you could be dead, smashed, before morning.