Crime and Punishment #20

Sam Denta, a ruthless gangster who dominates the fight racket by fixing bouts and corrupting athletes across multiple sports, finally meets his match when Sergeant Ulster and the police close in on his criminal empire. As Denta's network of blackmail, violence, and corruption unravels—and his associates abandon ship—the "King of the Fix" discovers there's one game he can't control. A gritty true-crime tale that exposes how organized crime poisoned professional athletics in 1949.

When two young English seamen discover a tin of smuggled diamonds hidden in their ship's machinery, an innocent act sets them on a collision course with a ruthless criminal gang—and soon they're kidnapped and forced into a deadly game of deception. With one sailor held captive and threats mounting against his family, the pair must rely on quick thinking and a risky bluff to turn the tables on their captors and help the authorities close in on the smuggling ring.

When two veteran cops are gunned down in the streets of a Midwestern city, Lieutenant David Green pursues a dangerous trail that leads him from waterfront dives to stolen weapons caches—discovering that he's not the only one hunting the killers. As Green closes in on the gang behind the murders, he finds himself caught between the law and a ruthless criminal underworld both bent on settling the score.