Underworld Crime #3

When a bored chemist named Henry Holmes stumbles upon the perfect method for committing an undetectable murder—dissolving a body in acid at his remote laboratory—he decides to lure a wealthy investor out to New Jersey with the promise of a lucrative business deal. But Henry's criminal plans collide with those of two escaped convicts who are watching from the neighboring room and have their own designs on the investor's money. As multiple schemes converge on that isolated laboratory, no one walks away with what they expected.

When gamblers Flash Bingham and Joe target star basketball player Mitch Dolson at Wentworth College, they engineer a hit-and-run accident to put the athlete in their debt—then discover Mitch's father is paralyzed and needs an expensive spinal operation. Now the Fixer has the perfect leverage: offering to finance the surgery in exchange for throwing the upcoming championship game. Mitch faces an agonizing choice between his father's health and his conscience, but one thing the smooth-talking criminals didn't count on is how far a young man will go to do what's right.

When a protection racket collector presumed dead crawls out of the Westlake Dumps with a bullet in his gut, Marty King emerges with a bitter new vision: he'll use his inside knowledge of Tiger Jack's syndicate operation to hijack the organization's most lucrative deals and build his own empire. Assembling a crew of dope fiends and trigger-happy killers, Marty launches a series of raids that plunge the city into open gang warfare, forcing both the syndicate and the police to reckon with a man who has nothing left to lose.