Finally back in print! This ground-breaking, controversial novel, banned in Australia and other countries for it's "homosexual references," was the dream acting/directing project of actor Sal Mineo, who was tragically murdered only hours after learning the movie would finally be made.
Vincent McCaffery is bright, good-looking, and gifted teenage hustler who seduces both men and women for money. He moves from a NY tenement into a plush Greenwich Village brothel, hoping to make it rich, but he falls in love with a prostitute and then plunges into a world of decadence and violence when an older man becomes obsessed with him.
25 hard-boiled, pulp noir novels written by 20 masters of the genre, back-in-print for the first time in 60 years, in one thrilling, action-packed collection.
A big, rugged story of Alaska...and of a spectacular woman as wild as the land that bred her.
Judson Van Horn is a U.S. spy who is growing weary of the game...and the killing. He is the personification of brute menace, powerful, clever, tough and pitiless. And he knows that his latest mission could force him into betrayal and murder in the name of God and country. But he does it anyway, because that is who is he is....and all he knows. 
"Charles Gorham has written a masterpiece. It is a remarkable tour-de-force in character study that will stick in one's mind for a long time. But it is not for the squeamish." Chicago Tribune
Frank Selby is two men... the man he is today, living in a split-level ranch house, married to his boss' daughter, and enjoying a typical, 9-to-5 working life. And then there is the man that he was...the smooth, debonair mastermind behind a series of daring heists. Now his secret past is coming back to haunt him in the deadly, seductive form of his old love Vikki, who lures him into one last job