Crime Does Not Pay #125

Frank Nash, a cunning and ruthless Midwestern criminal, builds a brutal career marked by savagery and cold calculation—from his earliest betrayals to a string of violent holdups across the region. After serving time and securing parole under false pretenses, Nash joins a bandit gang and orchestrates dozens of raids, each one leaving innocent victims in its wake. Now, as he and his crew plan their most audacious heist yet, the walls are beginning to close in.

Hack Gordon is a brutal muscle man who seized control of the rackets after Prohibition ended, but his vicious methods catch up with him when evidence links him to a murder. Facing execution for his crimes, Gordon finds himself in death row with fellow condemned prisoner Gus Buckley, who approaches him with a dangerous proposition that tests whether there's any decency buried beneath years of violence.

When a bank heist goes sideways and a wounded gang member visits a doctor for help, murder follows—and the only clue left behind is an X-ray image. Police turn this skeletal photograph into a detailed sculptured likeness, setting them on the trail of a killer who'll stop at nothing to avoid capture. It's a race against time as the law closes in on a desperate criminal hiding in the city's depths.