Used paperback in good condition. Cover and pages show minimal wear. Rubber stamp on flyleaf. Pages show normal age discolouration. 189 pages. Published by Futura Publications, 1974. ISBN 0860070417.

The Seven-ups are a special squad of New York City detectives working undercover to ferret out the hoods whose crimes will net them seven years or more in goal. They don't look like policemen and they don't behave like them.

Buddy is the man who leads the squad in a nerve shattering manhunt to uncover the kidnappers who are extorting money from the city's loan sharks. One problem is that the hoods are masquerading as policemen.

Although written as a novel, The Seven-ups dramatises events that actually took place, gathered from New York City's police files by detective Sonny Grosso, who also collaborated on The French Connection.