Crime Does Not Pay #64

Walter Legenza, the ruthless mastermind behind one of the FBI's most notorious criminal gangs, commands a crew of killers bound by his iron will and violent philosophy—but his paranoia about women and his obsession with silencing potential witnesses sets him on a collision course with those closest to him. When a widow's grief and rage over a death Legenza caused threatens to expose him, and his own gang fractures under the pressure of law enforcement closing in, the gangster finds himself trapped between his enemies and his own merciless code. With the Feds tightening their net, Legenza discovers that no amount of deadly cunning can outrun the consequences of his savagery.

Robert James is a smooth-talking barber with a sinister scheme: he systematically marries wealthy women, insures their lives, and then orchestrates their deaths to collect the payoffs. As his murderous pattern unfolds across three states, the horror-hardened police close in on a man whose fiendish cunning masks a cold-blooded killer.

Will Quantrill starts as a card sharp and murderer in Lawrence, Kansas, preying on anyone who crosses him—but when two marshals come to arrest him, he escapes and assembles a ruthless guerrilla band that answers to no side in the Civil War, only to Quantrill's appetite for gold and vengeance. As both Union and Confederate forces turn against him as a madman, Quantrill sets his sights on returning to Lawrence to settle an old score, leading his army of killers toward the town with bloodshed on his mind. This true crime saga traces how an outlaw's personal vendetta transforms into one of the war's most brutal and senseless massacres.