Crime Does Not Pay #58

A two-bit street hustler known for the wallet drop scam gets his nickname—Kid Dropper—and soon catches the eye of Monk Eastman, who recruits him into the Five Points Gang for a ruthless education in crime. As the Kid climbs the underworld ranks through violence and cold nerve, his trigger-happy brutality creates dangerous enemies and threatens everything around him, including a woman caught in his orbit.

In 16th-century England, the ruthless bandit Thomas Dun—a master of disguise who can reshape his very face—preys on merchant caravans and travelers with brutal cunning. When authorities attempt to stop him through armed convoys, Dun recruits a gang to match their numbers, growing bolder and deadlier with each passing year. As King Henry himself dispatches soldiers and sheriffs across the realm to hunt down the "massacre master," Dun's cunning and savagery escalate into something the kingdom has never faced before.

The Jersey Kid—a criminal mastermind who plans every job down to the second—executes a meticulously charted robbery of a bus company payroll, but his cold calculation can't account for the woman he wronged before the heist, whose betrayal sets law enforcement on his trail. As the manhunt intensifies and his gang falls apart, the Jersey Kid's carefully laid schemes unravel in the face of forces he never mapped out.