The Young Wolves - Hank Janson

COMPACT BOOKS F345

FIRST PRINTING 1968

LONDON, UK

the young wolves

They hunted as a pack, terrorizing the town with looting, fire-raising and rape...

A chance meeting with an old friend, whom he finds distraught and angry, puts Hank Janson on the trail of a gang of youths who appear to have been trained by some mysterious background character in all the ignoble arts of terror and extortion.

Joe Radinski had good cause to be angry; because he had refused to "co-operate" with the gang his 12-year old daughter had been brutally imprisoned and raped by these boys, for whom a conveniently arranged alibi had served to prevent any effective police action against them.

Gradually but remorselessly, Hank moves in on the gang's home ground, vowing to tear it apart, with his bare hands if necessary. When he starts showing results, the hidden power hits back in predictably ruthless fashion; but by this time Hank has the assistance of the very attractive and nimble-witted Cilla, with her own good reasons for hating the gang. She not only saves him from a very tricky situation, and helps him in his quest for the identity of his mystery quarry, but also manages to excel in the more intimate arts of which hank is something of an expert and connoisseur.

In Hot Blood - Mercer B. Cook

The grim story of a trio of young bloodthirsty hoodlums who swept across the country leaving a trail of robbery, mayhem and finally a brutal mass murder! As electrifying as today's headlines!

CHALLENGE BOOKS CB 201

FIRST PRINTING 1966

CALIFORNIA, USA

in hot blood

Will make your blood run cold as the gripping story of three young hoodlums, their contempt for society and the final senseless murders of six innocent people unfolds. But this is more than a story of chilling tragedy. It's an inside look at the hearts and minds of killers and victims alike, a raw slice of life itself!

Streets Of Sin - Mark Ryan

A powerful novel of wild delinquents on the prowl...delving into the fruits of forbidden desires and violent passions!

BEDSIDE BOOKS BB 813

INITIAL EDITION 1959

NEW YORK, USA

COVER ART BY LOU MARCHETTI

WILD DESIRES...

and untamed passions were the driving forces that made the Barons street gang the mob of delinquent sinners that they were. With no respect for morality, these shameless hoods and their gang-girl debs killed, raped and lusted for love. Their twisted lives in the gutter led them to further dangerous crimes and...

SINFUL AFFAIRS!

Play It Cool - Jack Gerstine

Wild Days and Nights of a Young Hoodlum...

DIGIT BOOKS R295

FIRST PRINTING - NO DATE

LONDON, UK

The teeming streets of Brooklyn were a battle-ground for fifteen-year-old Joey Vanne. A bright personable kid, he might have gone far once, but he was already marked down as a 'Juvenile Delinquent'.

You've read before about boys like Joey-good kids gone wrong. But never before has there been such a blazingly real story-one that is utterly true to life-about today's teen-agers on the prowl.

A Kind Of Loving - Stan Barstow

MICHAEL JOSEPH

FIRST PRINTING 1960

LONDON, UK

COVER ART BY ADRIAN BAILEY

Set against the background of a West Riding industrial town. A Kind of Loving is the story of a boy's physical infatuation with a girl whom he does not love. When, in his loneliness and romantic dream of the ideal mate, Victor Arthur Brown pursues Ingrid Rothwell he little realises the emotional crises in store for him nor how the events of the next two years will change his life; and in its examination of Vic's predicament the book takes on the wider significance of a study of some of the pitfalls which endanger youth as it fumbles its often uncharted way into adult life.

But this novel is no moral tract. The racy vernacular of the narrative is alive and vigorous and plunges the reader at the outset into the world of Vic's home, his working life, and his troubled relationship with Ingrid.

A Kind of Loving is a far cry from the civilised novel of manners, yet Victor Brown is no 'hero with a broken bottle.' He is to a great extent the prisoner of his own respectability - a respectability which, though it becomes strained to breaking point in the course of his relationship with Ingrid and her mother, the pseudo-refined and arrogant Mrs Rothwell, eventually combines with his innate decency and kindliness to determine him to seek an unselfish solution to his predicament. To do, as he puts it, 'what's right' and hope for 'a kind of loving' that will carry him through.

Violence In The Streets - Shalom Endleman

An analysis of the destructive impulses of society

GERALD DUCKWORTH 7156 0413 9

FIRST PRINTING 1969

LONDON, UK

Shootings, assassinations, mass murders, student protests, ghetto riots, police brutality, urban crime rackets - these things, as the events of recent years show, are now part of modern American life. Can they-will they soon-be part of ours?

This timely book searches for explanations of these things. What part, if any, does violence naturally play in life? Are we doomed to it? can we convert impulses towards destruction into more other useful directions?

Which ate the vested interests which seek to promote violence? What should be the role of the police? The 37 contributors to this collection include Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Jane Jacobs and Bruno Bettelheim. Their observations on the current situation in the States deserves immediate attention from all those in other countries who are concerned with changes in national character or with the preservation of public order.

The Picturegoers - David Lodge

Love and brute desire...cynicism and faith- a compassionate, realistic and even shocking novel of urban Britain today

PAN BOOKS G586

FIRST PAN EDITION 1962

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1960 BY MCGIBBON & KEE LTD

COVER ART BY OWEN

THE PALLADIUM, Brickley...

To this seedy Saturday night Mecca came:

MARK - who mapped out a girls's body and knew just how far she would let him go...but had, too, a burning need to regain his faith.

CLARE - who helped restore it...but found her own beliefs undermined by a new-found passion.

HARRY - who wanted power over gangs and tarts...yet wilted under insults of an old woman.

FATHER KIPLING - angered by the bosom flaunting crudity of modern life...but too ineffectual to influence his own congregation.

And so many others-each of them seeking, searching, questing...