The Perfect Crime #31

Detective Steve Duncan gets pulled into a dangerous game when a supposed legitimate businessman named Al Carbo crashes into his car and begs for help—but Duncan soon realizes Carbo is caught between two warring criminal syndicates, each willing to kill to control the underworld. As competing mobsters close in, Duncan finds himself trapped in Carbo's escalating violence, forced to survive a deadly crossfire where every move could be his last.

Clem Barrows thinks his luck has turned when he's sprung from a life sentence by a man named Dutch—but the jailbreak comes with a price: Dutch wants him to crack a safe and retrieve some documents. When Barrows discovers the papers are evidence against Dutch himself, he realizes he's been set up and left to take the fall. Now hunted by both the police and consumed by revenge, Barrows must survive seven desperate days on the run before his past finally catches up with him.

Albie Mason, a shrewd gangland boss with cops closing in, devises an elaborate con: he'll have his trusted bodyguard Lindy pretend to betray him to rival Shorty Berretti, collecting a twenty-five-grand bounty on Albie's head before the two skip town with the money. But when greed and betrayal collide at the lonely Westend dumping grounds, everyone involved discovers that in the criminal underworld, trust is the deadliest gamble of all.

Sinister Mitch Perna devises a clever scheme to rob over a hundred grand from a warehouse safe: stage a fire next door to mask the sound of his explosives while he cracks the vault. But when the blaze spreads faster than anticipated, trapping Perna and his partner Rico on the sixth floor, the criminals find themselves victims of their own desperate plan. A tense tale of thieves undone by the very trap they set.

Eddie Judson, a careful stick-up artist always on the lookout for the perfect score, spots an opportunity in Old Man Silvara's profitable merry-go-round operation—but a struggle during the robbery triggers an accident that sets events in motion neither man expected. When Eddie tries to escape with the cash, he finds himself caught between an unexpected encounter and the pursuing law, leading to a reckoning neither careful planning nor quick thinking can prevent.