The Informer #3

Sergeant Mark Fabian catches a brutal case when a small-time newsie is gunned down—but the victim's hidden bankbooks and smuggled slips reveal he was running numbers for the underworld. When a captured hood refuses to talk, Fabian hatches a risky scheme to turn the racket's paranoia into a weapon, hoping to flush out the real bosses behind the operation. It's a sharp detective story about how penny-and-nickel bets add up to big-time murder in 1954's streets.

Officer Kenny Cogan's routine beat turns urgent when he finds three hungry children living alone in a slovenly apartment—and discovers the youngest, baby Bobby, dangerously ill. What begins as a welfare crisis leads Cogan on a determined hunt through neighborhood bars to locate the children's absent mother, uncovering a connection to a recent jewelry store robbery that puts him face-to-face with a desperate criminal and the choices that bind her to her abandoned kids.