Down with Crime #1

Desarro, a criminal mastermind infamous for his uncanny ability to escape, tears through the city in a desperate flight from the law after a jewel heist goes dangerously personal when his accomplice Nora reveals she's secretly married to another man. Cornered on a bridge with nowhere left to run, Desarro must call on every trick in his escape artist's repertoire—and the raw will to survive—as the noose tightens around him.

When two escaped convicts approach the Professor—a mastermind of the underworld—with word of a five-million-dollar currency shipment traveling by train through the Rocky Mountains, he sees an opportunity to pull off the biggest robbery of his career and retire for good. The Professor meticulously plans every detail, from aerial reconnaissance to a scale model of the strike location, but harbors a secret agenda that only he knows about. As the team moves into position near Eagle Rock and waits for the signal that the target train is en route, the pieces fall into place for a heist that could change everything—or destroy it all.

Eddie "Lucky" Lang grows up in San Francisco's slums during the 1920s, learning early that success comes from being smarter than the competition—a lesson he applies to his career as a cunning gambler who rigs every game in his favor. When his cheating is discovered, he kills a man and flees, only to repeat the same pattern across Texas and Florida, always one step ahead of the law. But eventually, forced to make one honest gamble to escape capture, Lucky finally runs out of luck.