Seven Slayers

Продажные судьи, насквозь прогнившая полицейская система, свирепые и беспринципные мерзавцы, избравшие порок своим ремеслом… Только герой, обладающий высшими достоинствами, может одолеть злодеев такого масштаба! Смертельный поединок со злом продолжается…

Fifteen stories and one novel — hard-boiled classics by an undisputed master.

Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain’s stories are classics of his genre. The protagonists of ambiguous morality who populate Cain’s work are portrayed with a cinematic flair for the grim hardness of their world. Cain’s only novel, was originally serialized in in the 1930s. It introduces us to Gerry Kells, a hard-nosed criminal who still holds fast to his humanity in a Los Angeles that’s crooked to the core.

This collection presents Cain’s classic crime writing to a contemporary audience.

Two hours of savagery, of silk and leaden lust, of sheer terror await you in the nightmare spell of these pages, this death-song.

The hardest, roughest novel of them all Fast One.

Here is the novel that goes even farther than Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in bringing to life the savage side of America beyond the law. It is set amidst the dehumanizing desperation of the Great Depression. Its amoral hero is Kells, a cynical, icepick-sharp detective looking out for number one in a human jungle of big-time mobsters, crooked politicians, high-rolling gamblers, and high-priced women. Its action is nonstop, its realism brutally riveting, and its impact unforgettable.