Crime and Punishment #64

Nick Rizzo thought joining Tony Calman's gang was just for kicks, but a brutal armored car heist drags him deeper into the criminal underworld than he ever bargained for. Now hunted by both the gang and the police—and caught between his protective plainclothesman brother and a woman caught in the crossfire—Nick faces a reckoning that will test every choice he's made.

Escaped convict Bloody Bachelor Banton—a cynical career criminal with a pathological hatred of women—reunites with his gang at a hideout, where his iron rule against letting girlfriends travel with them clashes explosively with the men's romantic attachments. When Banton's misogyny and ruthless pragmatism collide with a dangerous bank job, his callous decisions set off a chain of consequences that tests whether anyone around him will survive his vindictive code.

Chick Gannet spots raw boxing talent in fellow San Remo Penitentiary inmate Stan Tulsa and builds him into a rising fighter through a series of fixed matches, but when gambling boss Dandy Kaznar demands that Kid Tulsa take a dive against champion Stony Burke, Chick faces an agonizing choice between loyalty to the man who trusts him and his obligations to the criminal underworld. As fight night arrives and Tulsa steps into the ring unaware of the betrayal waiting for him, Chick's conscience becomes his greatest opponent.