Romantic Adventure Library #545
"Second Time Around" in Romantic Adventure Library #545 (1973, Micron) delivers a tense, emotionally charged tale of chance encounters and moral choices. When Charles stumbles upon a crashed car and finds a wallet linking him to a list of men murdered for refusing protection money, he’s thrust into a dangerous web of violence and deception. With the assassin dead and the man’s widow unwilling to be drawn back into her husband’s criminal world, Charles must navigate a perilous path where trust is scarce and survival hinges on a carefully orchestrated ruse. The story’s quiet intensity and moral complexity are underscored by its stark, typeset lettering.
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Charles comes upon the scene of an automobile accident and discovers the wallet of a injured man. The wallet contains a lot of money and a list of men who had disappeared or been killed recently for refusing to pay protection money. Charles' own name was next on the list. After later reading that his would-be assassin had died from his injuries in the accident, Charles decides to return the wallet to the man's family. Gangsters attempt to use the assassin's widow to kill Charles, but she wants no part of her ex-husband's life and helps try to arrange a fake death for Charles.
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