Gang World #6

Merciless criminal Monk Kramer springs himself from prison with help from the red-headed Maura, only to discover she's been pulling the strings all along—leading him and his gang on a brutal crime spree across the countryside. When Monk's jealousy and pride turn violent, the carefully orchestrated operation begins to unravel, and the police close in on the Blue Bell hideout. As the walls tighten around them, Monk and Maura find themselves on the run, forced to confront what their twisted partnership has become.

Pete Alvarez climbs from small-time border grifter to the ruthless king of Mexican smuggling in this bloody tale of ambition and violence. Starting as a hustler steering tourists into a dive, Pete's quick trigger finger and ruthless methods earn him control of a sprawling operation moving narcotics, gems, aliens, and contraband across the border—but his kill-first approach draws heat from both sides of the law. As the "Beast of the Border" spirals deeper into crime and betrayal, his empire begins to crumble around him.

Nick Wagner thinks his days of petty crime are behind him when he's released from prison and reunites with Mimi Sloane, but he's soon drawn into the ruthless operations of gangster Mannie M'Ardel, where loyalty is currency and betrayal carries a deadly price. As Nick climbs the ranks through violence and cunning, he becomes increasingly reckless—until the very person closest to him becomes his undoing. A hard-boiled tale of ambition, desperation, and the criminal underworld's iron grip.

Rocky Owens is a hard-knuckled kid from the tenements who uses his fists first and thinks later—until a chance encounter at a nightclub sets him on a collision course between the criminal underworld and a world of wealth and respectability. When ambition and desire cloud his judgment, the tough guy discovers that violence can't solve every problem, and loyalty is a rare currency. Can Rocky escape the consequences of his own nature, or is the life he's built destined to come crashing down?