Rich Crooks

A chance dinner in a Manhattan restaurant becomes a trap for Don Everhard, a gambler and gunfighter who knows how to read danger in a room. A stranger presses a package into his hands, and suddenly Everhard is running a trail that leads from New York speakeasies to the corridors of power in a distant state capital. A governor's destiny hangs in the balance. Prominent men have secrets worth killing for. And Everhard, who only wanted to eat his meal in peace, finds himself entangled in an insidious plot that stretches half-way across the continent. The early hard-boiled masterpiece crackles with the tense atmosphere of 1920s America, where every stranger might be a threat and every alliance a potential betrayal. Gordon Young delivers a crime novel that understands: in a world of rich crooks, the honest man is the most dangerous species of all.