From the moment that Cora Brant stepped into the smoky atmosphere of 'Joe's Club', flaunting a figure that slacks and a too-thin sweater did nothing to conceal, George Fraser was lost. George, in spite of his imposing appearance, was timid and lonely, living in a dream world of racketeers, gunfights and fascinating women: bolstering up his inferiority complex by imagining himself the toughest gangster of them all. Through Cora, all these fantasies were to come true. George was to become ensnared in a net of intrigue, and a vicious killer hunted, not only by the police, but by the gang he had doubled-crossed.