Ovid Demaris (1919 –1998) was a newspaper reporter who wrote over a dozen pulp novels but hit the bestseller lists with a string of non-fiction books, primarily about organized crime, including The Last Mafioso and The Green Felt Jungle. Two of his novels became cult classic crime movies Machine Gun McCain (from Candyleg) and Gang War (from The Hoods Take Over).
When someone needs bribing, beating or killing, the L.A. mob sends The Enforcer to do the job. He drives the flashiest cars, he wears the most expensive clothes, and he beds the hottest women. He has the connections and the money to buy just about anything… or anyone… that he wants.
But now The Enforcer is being hunted… by a young, ambitious cop. The Enforcer knows there’s only one way this can end… with one of them in a grave. That’s fine with him.
Four brutal, hard-charging crime novels set in Los Angeles in the late 1950s… when the East Coast mob was making a big move to the West Coast and leaving a trail of bodies and blood in their wake…. by international bestselling author Ovid Demaris, an expert on organized crime.
Corrupt LAPD cop Vince Fusco crosses a big line when he executes a drug dealer for his drugs and his woman… but things get worse when he realizes there were witnesses. Now he’s violently raging through the sordid alleys and back streets of L.A.’s drug culture, searching for the witnesses and a big shipment of heroin, aka horse, aka the gold mare. The only one standing in Fusco’s way is a lowly reporter on the crime beat… a guy who has more bourbon than blood running through his veins… chasing a story that could be his final byline.
