Mike Black's violent rise to power earned him the nickname 'Vicious Black'. He becomes enchanted with drug dealer Cassandra Sims, and when an attempt is made on her life, Mike has to rescue her and soon becomes her protector.

When her brother mysteriously disappears, Gabriel Childers, believing that her husband, Chilly, a major player in the drug world, is responsible, hires private investigator Nick Simmons to find the truth, but Nick becomes too immersed in the case, which leads to his arrest. Original. 35,000 first printing.

When Mike Black's peaceful island existence is shattered by echoes from the past, he has no choice but to come out of retirement - and put out the payback.

Returning to New York to spend time with his wife and newborn baby daughter, crime lord Mike Black finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit and as his family goes to war, he finds an unlikely ally in a detective who believes in his innocence. Original.

In this latest installment in the Mike Black Saga, underworld kingpin Mike Black, still grieving over the brutal murder of his wife, must choose between destroying the people responsible for her death and being a father to his infant daughter. Original.

When long time associate, Kenny Lucas is assassinated, Mike Black orders Nick Simmons, who now runs his organization, to find the killers. And maybe Black will ask a few questions of himself. But Nick has problems of his own when he finds that Rain Robinson betrayed his trust and has set up a drug operation behind his back. When several of her dealers began getting robbed and murdered execution style, Rain had no choice; she had to go to Nick for help. Now that the police are on the case, Nick knows that he has to crush this before the cops tie the drug and the murders to Rain and do it before Black finds out what he's doing.

For Mike Black and his organization, protecting their businesses from jealous rivals is nothing new. This time, however, things are getting personal. Freeze, a longtime member of the organization is dead, and Nick is having a hard time dealing with it. Mike gives him a simple job to keep his mind deliver money to help out a grieving grandmother. But when Nick visits the woman and learns that her granddaughter’s death has been written off by law enforcement as a drug-related death, he is called to action. He vows to investigate Tatiana’s death, unaware of the danger that awaits him. Meanwhile, Mike has returned from a long hiatus to head the organization along with his sidekick and confidant, Bobby Ray. Feeling the heat and fearing he will end up like Freeze, Mike is trying to set things in place so he can finally get out of the game, but it seems no one wants to make it easy for him. Between DEA agents, dirty cops, and hustlers after his territory, Mike has to be smart about how he makes his exit. Fans of Roy Glenn’s books will recognize many of their favorites in this cast of characters. The question is, who will survive, and whose story will end with a bullet?