by G. H. Otis (Author), Gary Lovisi (Introduction by)
BOURBON STREET
Digger knows what it's like to be on the bottom. He's been there most of his life. But he's got a plan to put him on top. And nothing is going to get in his way. Sure he has to betray a friend, but Johnny would have betrayed him first if he could. Of course, now Ma Vivaldi and Leon are looking for him, looking to bust his head, or worse. But they can be avoided if he can just stay away from Bourbon Street. All he has to do now is get past Mr. Trigg and arrange a meeting with the real boss, Vitolo Giannini, and he's in. He's got a smuggling set-up that is so perfect, Giannini will have to deal with him. What could go wrong....?
HOT CARGO
Ed Brody needs the work or he wouldn't have joined the crew of the old oil freighter in the first place. The captain, a fat man named Croup, introduces himself with a gun in his hand. And then there's Sheba, a young, red-haired temptress that has no business on the boat, even if she is married to the guy in charge, a crippled old man named Ringer. Brody figures they're smuggling Ringer and his wife down to South America. Then he watches as the crew loads crates filled with jet engines aboard. When he realizes that they're headed out of the Gulf toward the Atlantic, he knows that there is something a lot more at stake here than smuggling. Now he just needs to live long enough to do something about it.