Crime and Punishment #59

Carlo Vanna's twenty-two-year obsession with revenge against the man who deported him from America takes an unexpected turn when he trains his own son, Joe, to carry out his vendetta—but Joe has his own plans that threaten to derail his father's singular purpose. As Carlo's carefully orchestrated scheme inches toward its goal, he must confront whether his son will follow orders or choose a different path, and whether the revenge that's consumed him for decades is worth the cost it demands.

Jim Lanier, an amateur photographer passing through the city for a weekend of picture-taking, accidentally captures something far darker than a skyscraper on film—a man plummeting from a window. When the killer realizes he's been documented by Lanier's camera, he'll stop at nothing to recover the film and destroy the evidence.

Mastermind Murdock devises an audacious escape plan from Central State Penitentiary, meticulously arming himself and five fellow convicts with a makeshift gun crafted over weeks of painstaking labor. When fog and rain finally provide cover on April 21st, 1930, the men make their desperate bid for freedom—commandeering an engine and taking hostages as they race toward the prison gates. This gripping true crime story chronicles one of the most daring prison breaks in American penal history, from its inception months earlier to its explosive climax.