By James Hadley Chase
$5,000 present - useless or Alive - That was once the cost on Dillon's head.
A chilly, ruthless racketeer, Dillon had risen from lackey gunman to Kansas urban boss. Now he used to be monstrous time, great money.
But then Dillon all started residing it up with younger beauties - and started to make error. And as soon as Dillon's defend used to be down, an interloper bought his likelihood to drag a ugly doubletake.
First released 1939
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Dillon has been out of the rackets for a while ; now he was once able to carve his long ago in. bold, cold-blooded, impatient, he simply wanted a commence, and one or unfortunate humans to aid him on his means. He chanced on them. Like Nick Gurney and Roxy, small-time operators who reckoned Dillon was once the arrival man...
Myra, the curvaceous boxer's daughter bored with small-town lifestyles and reckless for excitement... and Hurst, the racketeer who governed part a urban. a technique and one other, all of them helped Dillon, whereas Dillon helped himself. He didn't pay attention any proceedings both, for an extended time...
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