Run Baby Run - Nicky Cruz

HODDER AND STOUGHTON 340 10700 6

LONDON, UK 

FIRST PRINTING 1969

JACKET DESIGN BY BERNARD BRETT

Nicky Cruz was a key subject in the four million copy best-seller THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE

In Run Baby Run Nicky tells his own story of gang warfare in the streets of a big city and of his dramatic conversion.

'I reached up to the shelf and took down my revolver. By force of habit I started to put the shells in the magazine so I could sleep with the gun on my night stand. But suddenly I remembered. Jesus loves me. He will protect me. I took the bullets and placed them back in the small box and put the gun back on the shelf. In the morning I would turn it in to the police.

That night, for the first time in my memory, I put my head on my pillow and slept nine beautiful hours. No fear of sounds outside my room. The nightmares were gone.'

'Run Baby Run, the story of Nicky Cruz, is remarkable. It has all the elements of tragedy, violence, and intrigue - plus the greatest ingredient of all ingredients:the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The adult population can no longer ignore the youth with their staggering twentieth century problems. They search for meaning. They are not enamoured with our time-worn social taboos. They press for sincerity in religion, for honesty in politics, and for fairness for the underprivileged.

Run Baby Run is a thrilling story. My hope is that it shall have a wide reading, and that those who read shall come to know Christ who changed the empty, restless heart of Nicky Cruz and has made him a Christian legend in his time.'

BILLY GRAHAM

'Nicky Cruz is only a very colourful representative of a vast number of people who, in the past few decades, have been delivered from crime, alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution, homosexuality, and almost every kind of perversion and degeneration known to man.

Psychiatric care, medical treatment, and spiritual counselling had failed to affect these people, when with astounding abruptness, they were set free from their bonds by the power of the Holy Spirit and led to a life of useful service.'

Prof. Edward D. O'Connor,

University of Notre Dame

The Real Gone Goose - George Bagby

Fast, crackling, crazy, it screams of the quick and the dead

CONSUL BOOKS 1078

LONDON, ENGLAND

FIRST PRINTING 1961

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY T.V. BOARDMAN

George Bagby has always appreciated New York City as a place in which a person can live for years without ever knowing his nearest neighbour.

But not every New Yorker had 'a girl next door' like Sabra, a goofy kid whose unwashed Beatnik friends seemed to spurn everything - soap, bourgeois morals, privacy - everything, that is, except Sabra's unlimited supply of cash. Suddenly Sabra, the 'goose that laid the golden eggs' was gone...real gone. And that was when George Bagby, trying to clarify his relationship with Sabra to the pressm and to his friends at Police Headquarters, decided Sabra had been far less trouble when she was alive.

THE REAL GONE GOOSE is an exciting mystery story that is unusual in that it has the background to murder, the weird and unrealistic world of the 'Beatnik Generation'.

Teen-Age Mobster - Benjamin Appel

Teen-Age Violence - and Adult Vice

AVON T-468

NEW YORK, USA 

SECOND PRINTING WITH THIS TITLE AND NEW COVER ART - NO DATE

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BY AVON IN 1955 AS "LIFE AND DEATH OF A TOUGH GUY"

YOUNG HOOD

Out of the slum back alleys and the violent sandlots of Hell's Kitchen came young Joey Case-

an ordinary, decent kid who might have been your neighbor's son one year...suddenly turned vicious mobster, "lady's man," and brutal killer the next.

With unflinching honesty, yet depth and compassion as well, one of the truly big writers about the New York underworld tells his story-as timely and terrifying as tomorrow's headlines-the story of a kid who made murder his chosen career.

"THE BEST ACCOUNT YET IN THE FORM OF A NOVEL OF A DEBASING PHASE OF OUR HISTORY..."

-N.Y. Journal-American

The Beatniks - Richard E. Geis

the erotic and exotic - a lost world where naked sex flaunts its message to the sensuous beat of a drum

DOLLAR DOUBLE 955

CHICAGO, IL, USA

FIRST PRINTING AUGUST 1962

ORIGINALLY PRINTED BY NEWSSTAND LIBRARY AS 'LIKE CRAZY MAN' 1960

And The Girl Screamed - Gil Brewer

TEEN-AGERS...KIDS PLAYING AN ADULT GAME OF VIOLENCE AND MURDER

PRIORY 1120

LONDON, UK

NO DATE

(PRODUCED IN ISRAEL FOR PRIORY BOOKS)

FIRST PRINTED BY FAWCETT PUBLICATIONS

THEY WOULD STOP AT NOTHING!

THE WILLOWY BLOND, in a fluffy white skirt stood over him. She was smoking a cigarette through the black mask that covered her face.

"Hello, honey," she said softly. "Do you like me?"

She knelt on one knee. Her hand caressed his cheek, her other hand holding the cigarette.

As the blonde kissed him on the mouth she ground her cigarette into his flesh. He yelled, but she kept up the kissing and the burning.

"Atta girl! Give it to him again!" one of the boys shouted. "Next?"

They were teen-agers - kids. But they were capable of anything. And one of them had been capable, probably, of murder!

Basement Gang - David Williams

A DARING NOVEL OF REEFER SMOKE - RECKLESS THRILLS - AND THE WILD LOVE OF BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE CITY STREETS

INTIMATE NOVELS NO.32

DESIGNS PUBLISHING COMPANY, NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING 1953

this 

way

down...

Seven steps descended from the sidewalk to the cellar club. They led lovely young Kathie Melton out of the innocence of her teens into the guilt and viciousness of a precociously sinful world!

Kathie knew the cellar gang was a little wild. She joined, just the same - chiefly to show Hank Landrum she was tired of his idea of an exciting Saturday night. What she didn't know was that the cellar crowd were fond of vile amusements and up to their neck in the rackets.

The excitement really started when Hank, out of longing for her, tried to pull her from the gang. Its jittery members decided to take care of both Hank and Kathie...

A frank, daring novel of teen-age life in a Bronx slum! Here are intimately revealed the desperate secrets of youth caught in the tails of poverty, seeking escape through vice and violence!

Queen Street - Matthew Gant

Blood Sealed Their Oath...Was Blood Their Only Destiny?

MATTHEW GANT'S hell-raising novel of slum vengeance and innocent sinners

REGENCY BOOKS RB 315

EVANSTON, IL, USA

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL - FIRST PRINTING 1963

COVER ART BY DILLON

THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST STREET

There are many candidates for the title - and half of them are crammed into a small section of New York City's Upper West Side

It's a section that has seen the dregs of inhumanity - the toughs and the touts, the addicts and the pushers, the brutes and the brutalized - seen them come and go, kill and be killed, without turning a hair

It has seen the gangs - hoodlum gangs, criminal gangs, teen-age delinquent gangs

And now the deadliest, most sinful gang of all

THE QUEENS

The little girls who should play with dolls, and do play with dope, sex and switchblades - the girls who obey no rules but their own warped code of hatred for the world and a seething desire to spit in its face - the girls who long for kicks, search for violence and plot their rumbles...

WHILE THE CITY SHUDDERS!