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Rackets, Inc.
A Johnny Merak Classic Crime Novel
2013
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Small-time crook Johnny Merak is determined to get Maxie Temple, a former crime boss who'd framed him for a three-year stretch in San Quentin, and is now returning home from Mexican exile. But the 1950s Los Angeles Underworld wants Temple and Merak dead, and decides that by killing Temple, they can remove both men with one shot. But Merak isn't having any of the deal—he wants to clear his name and escape his Syndicate ties. When beautiful Dawn Grahame shows up, he finally has a reason to fight for a better life. This is the dark side of the L.A. the unknown hoodlum who knows too much, a vicious killer named Madden, Madden's girlfriend, who has to be juiced with heroin to stop her from talking, and Clancy Snow and Dutch McKnight, two Underworld bosses who hover like black spiders of treachery and vice over the very core of Los Angeles, manipulating its social, legal, and political life to their benefit. Can Johnny find a way through this morass? A noir crime classic, filled with riveting action, the first of a stunning new series!
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John Glasby
Author · 24 books

John Stephen Glasby (23 September 1928 – 5 June 2011) was a prolific British author whose work spanned a range of popular genres. A professional research chemist and mathematician, he produced over 300 novels and short stories during the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were published pseudonymously under the Badger Books imprint. Pseudonyms (listed alphabetically): Chuck Adams John Adams R.L. Bowers Tex Bradley Berl Cameron Craig Campbell Max Chartair Randall Conway Ray Cosmic John Crawford J.B. Dexter John Glasby J.S. Glasby Michael Hamilton J.J. Hansby D.K. Jennings Marston Johns Victor La Salle Victor LaSalle Peter Laynham H.K. Lennard Rand Le Page Paul Lorraine John C. Maxwell A.J. Merak H.J. Merak John Morton John E. Muller J.L. Powers Manning K. Robertson Karl Zeigfreid

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