WOLF COP Tony Serella is a tough but honest cop. But he’s gotten a reputation as a wolf cop, a loner that doesn’t run with the pack, doesn’t play the game. Now he’s up on charges that he beat a young punk who pulled a knife on him, beat him senseless. Mayberry, the Chief of Detectives, is on his side, but the Commissioner is not so sure. He’d like to keep Serella on the force, but he’s got his own career to think of. And then there’s Inspector Curtain, worried that Serella is bucking for his job. He’d like nothing more than to see this wolf cop busted out of the department. Serella has only got one shot at redemption, and it’s a long one. But first he has decide if he can compromise his ideals—or if he himself is worth fighting for. PORT ANGELIQUE Sabo de Chine is out of jail and back in Port Angelique, back to reclaim his buried treasure. It’s up to police commissioner Stanley Fowler to catch him with the loot. However, it seems that everyone on the island knows about this treasure, and they all want a piece of it. There’s Bip, the illiterate Yum-Yum boy who wants a taste of the good life; George Kelly, the over-extended port captain; Laird Abbot, a larcenous shrimper with a handy boat; and Canta, the Florida gangster in charge of moving the gold. Into this stewpot of greed and villainy is added Mama Lukee, the local madam with an agenda of her own. Fowler cautiously makes his way through this miasma of crooked intentions, his one goal in life to put Sabo behind bars, this time permanently. “The resultant tension makes for one of the strongest American procedurals outside of the 87th Precinct.”—Anthony Boucher, NY Times “The Caribbean setting is carefully detailed, and there are more plots, sub-plots, and counter-plots than anyone would expect to find in a book of fewer than 175 pages.”—Bill Crider, 20th Century Crime & Mystery Writers “… a dynamite read!”—August West Richard Jessup was born January 2, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. He spent his early years in a local orphanage before running away as a merchant seaman. A voracious reader, he left the sea behind and began a career as a fulltime writer. He wrote more than 60 books, most of them paperback originals—westerns, crime novels, espionage, social dramas, sea adventures—either under his real name or as Richard Telfair. As Telfair, he wrote the Wyoming Jones western series and the Montgomery Nash spy thrillers for Gold Medal Books. Jessup’s best known work, The Cincinnati Kid in 1964, was filmed with Steve McQueen and Ann-Margret. His last novel, Threat, was published in 1981. Jessup died from cancer on October 22, 1982, in Nokomis, Florida.