Danger #1

Forty stories above the ground, construction worker Joey Lane finds himself trapped between a dangerous height and his ruthless foreman Mike Lomak—a brutal bully who's made the young worker's life miserable. When tragedy strikes, Joey's brother Roy, a carnival acrobat, arrives with a plan to settle accounts with Lomak by taking a job on the same building site. Now Roy must navigate the steel girders high above the city while confronting the man responsible for his brother's fate.

Two rival whalers, Jansen and Nils Thornberg, agree to a high-stakes competition to win the hand of a woman named Nan Flanders—whoever brings in the most whale tonnage in a month wins her as a bride. As the deadline approaches and the two men's obsession intensifies into dangerous desperation, a single massive finback whale becomes the flashpoint for a rivalry that spirals catastrophically out of control. What begins as a race for tonnage becomes a savage battle for survival that will leave both men forever changed.

A wildcatter's dreams collide with an oil baron's ruthlessness when Wayde Crandal stakes everything—his savings, his well, and his love for Big Hugh Norton's daughter Sally—on striking it rich in Texas. But Norton won't tolerate a rival, and as sabotage and violence escalate across the oil fields, Wayde faces an impossible choice on a burning platform with nitro in hand and his enemy's life hanging in the balance.

When a tunnel disaster kills his veteran partner, Jack Carruthers resents young Dave O'Brien's quick promotion to full sandhog—convinced the kid isn't ready for the job's deadly demands. As the two men work side by side digging beneath the West River, Carruthers' doubt turns to grudging respect, tested by fire, recklessness, and a catastrophic "blow" that traps them all in the tunnel's crushing grip. Will O'Brien finally prove himself when it matters most?