Parole Breakers #2

Marion Gilmore was just another girl working hard in San Francisco's slums until her mother's death sent her down a darker path—and within a year, she'd built herself into a ruthless gang leader running confidence schemes and warehouse robberies across the waterfront. When a heist goes wrong and lands her in prison, Marion must decide what lengths she'll go to for her freedom. This hard-boiled tale tracks how ambition and desperation can transform an ordinary teenager into a cunning criminal willing to do whatever it takes.

Vinnie Sherwood was just a delivery driver until a hijacking cost him his job—and set him on a path toward crime. Now running a brutal protection racket across the city's trucking routes, he uses parolees as his muscle while posing as an honest businessman, all while squeezing terrified market owners for their livelihoods. But when one of his forced recruits finally finds the courage to go to the police, the Racket King's empire begins to crumble.

A hired killer known as the Fiddler takes on a job to eliminate Big Monte and his crew, but his careful planning unravels when an old, fiddle-playing drunk at his employer's headquarters keeps getting in the way. When the Fiddler finally makes his move at Morgan's Tavern, he finds himself caught between his paymaster's ambitions and an unexpected twist of fate—all centered around a single violin case.

Pete Loris leads the ruthless Flathead Gang through a series of brutal armored car heists in 1925, starting with a daring mine payroll robbery that proves far more dangerous than expected. When the gang's ambitions grow deadlier and one member turns informant, Pete finds himself facing the full force of the law—and discovers that even the most hardened criminal's luck eventually runs out. This is the story of how a mob boss learns that crime's profits come with a price far steeper than any payoff.