Crime Must Pay the Penalty #10

Two hardened ex-cons, Bart Eastly and Vince Malone, leave prison with imaginary grievances and a deadly resolve—they plan to hunt down every guard and official from Gresham Penitentiary and exact a bloody revenge. As their killing spree begins, law enforcement scrambles to stop them before they work through their twisted hit list.

Eugene Walrick, known in Hell's Kitchen as Gene the Genius, has made a comfortable living designing heists for neighborhood criminals—until he falls hard for Goldy Marlowe, a nightclub singer who demands a husband with a million dollars. To win her, Gene devises what he believes will be the perfect crime: a coordinated assault on armored cars carrying the state payroll near Albany. On June 18th, 1933, Gene puts his elaborate plan into motion with a carefully chosen team and an escape route through an abandoned iron mine—but the operation immediately begins to unravel when the armored cars don't arrive as expected, and police response arrives faster than calculated.

Smooth-talking racketeer Hildy Quinn partners with Hack Lewis to corner the taxi business in 1930s New York—but their scheme to monopolize the market relies on a brutal campaign of violence and destruction against their competition. As Quinn pulls the strings from behind the scenes while Lewis handles the rough work, Detective Sergeant Simms grows suspicious of how the Quinn-Lewis fleet mysteriously escapes the bombings and beatings plaguing every other cab company. Quinn's gold-mine ambitions are about to collide with justice.

Two prison escapees with a talent for keeping their word—no matter the cost—Edward Baker and Joseph Gorre flee an Iowa penitentiary in 1945 using homemade keys, only to set off on an escalating crime spree fueled by a deadly code: they always finish what they promise. When Gorre vows to complete a bank robbery he started before his arrest and to blow up an entire town out of spite, Baker finds himself swept along on an increasingly dangerous path toward notoriety as the pair become the FBI's Public Enemies #1 and #2.