Men Against Crime #3

A young drifter from New York's Lower East Side named Frank Carelli tumbles from petty crime into armed robbery and worse, eventually fleeing to the Army under an assumed name—only to discover that his past, and the murder he committed while evading capture, has finally caught up with him. Mr. Risk, the private investigator hired to track him down, pieces together Carelli's downward spiral from truant to cop-killer, following the trail that leads from street crime to military detention and toward a violent reckoning at an Army camp in North Dakota.

Two brothers—one a cop, one a criminal—find themselves locked in a deadly game when Sam Regas discovers evidence that his own brother Marty may be behind a string of gang murders sweeping the city. As Sam struggles between his duty to uphold the law and his blood tie to Marty, the gangster spirals deeper into violence, determined to silence the one man who can bring him down. Their collision course leads to a shocking twist that forces Sam to devise a desperate last gambit to save his brother from himself.

A spoiled young man with a hair-trigger temper and no respect for authority has served his minimum sentence, and now the warden must testify before the parole board about Len Remarque's crime-studded past—knowing that his record suggests a pattern of impulsive violence that the law may never fully answer for. Through flashbacks, we see how Remarque's childhood selfishness and need for the spotlight spiraled into armed robbery, gambling-joint holdups, and worse, all while dragging his devoted wife Rita and a pair of gunmen deeper into his increasingly reckless schemes. As the warden grapples with the question of whether a habitual criminal can ever truly change, Remarque's own nature—that compulsion to jump the gun—threatens to catch up with him.