A hard-bitten but intensely moving story of young Jerry Clinch, ex-con trying to go straight, and the men and women who wouldn't let him—Big Dan, powerful city boss, with a wad of enemies and a wad of dough—Rhea, Dan's beautiful wife—Lola, the little "jail-bait pro," who got under Clinch's tough hide. . . Nerve-wracking glimpses of the big city through which these hell-bent characters move. . .A portrait of an American city at its garish worst. . .
