Cry Tough! - Irving Shulman

"As much a case history of juvenile delinquency and organised crime as it is a novel" - by the author of THE AMBOY DUKES

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: T-303

Publishing Year: 1958

Printing: Eleventh (Movie Tie-in)

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist: Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

A great, mature and moving novel of

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

that no parent of a growing boy or girl, and no adult can afford not to read. . .

"APPALLED BY VIOLENCE,

he found himself employed as a professional rougher-up. . .Engaged to a girl he respected, he found himself drawn to a beautiful tramp. . .

"CRY TOUGH! is a striking, compassionate and unsentimental treatment of a romanticized subject."

-N.Y. Herald Tribune

"CRY TOUGH!"

-now a great motion picture starring

John Saxon & Linda Cristal

A United Artists Release

The Holy Barbarians - Lawrence Lipton

The first complete inside story of the Beat Generation

Who they are / What they believe / How they live

Publisher: Black Cat Books

Number: BC-17

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 75c

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What does it mean to be "Beat?"

What effect have the "Beats" had on the American Way of Life?

What are their beliefs regarding sex, jazz, the use of drugs? Is the "Beat Generation" a passing fad or a deep-seated revolt? These and many other questions are answered in this book, which uses conversations, personal interviews, and tape recordings to delve beneath the surface and show the real world of the "Beats."

"The Holy Barbarians is replete with the frank autobiographical reminisces of a group of young Americans of extremely varied backgrounds, who hold in common only a complete rejection of the values of bourgeois society. . . .

No One is going to be able to assess the depth and breadth of this rebellion without referring to Lipton's humane and sensitive book."

- Harvey Swados

Nightmare Street - Hal Ellson

The big, brutal story of a nightmare world where passion is a pastime and pain a pleasure

Publisher: Belmont Books

Number: 9o-316

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: First

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"SHOCKING"

is what the Saturday Review has said of Hal Ellson's writing

"FASCINATING"

is what the New York Herald Tribune said of Hal Ellson's smash bestseller, DUKE

TREMENDOUS

is what they'll say about NIGHTMARE STREET, the story of a man who looked for the easy life, only to find that he'd made a pact with a diabolical, deadly stranger who led him into a life of sex, sin and sadism - a life of torture and torment from which there was no escape.

Hot Rod - Henry Gregor Felsen

Speed. . .Danger. . .DEATH!

Publisher: Bantam Books

Number: 923

Publishing Year: 1951

Printing: First

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WHAT THE REVIEWERS SAY OF THIS MNOVEL:

". . .PUNCH, DRAMA, SUSPENSE, SWIFT ACTION, SHREWD CHARACTERIZATION. . ."

-Dallas TIMES

"Full of thrills and excitement, hard to put down. . ."

-Wichita EAGLE

"DRAMA-PACKED, PLENTY OF SUSPENSE. . ."

-Montgomery (Ala.) ADVERTISER

All The Way Down - Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum

THE VIOLENT UNDERWORLD OF STREET GANGS

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Number: F 712

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 50c

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ALL THE WAY DOWN

is the story of five years spent in the vicious, appalling underworld of the juvenile street gangs. Vincent Riccio, ex-boxer with an M.A. degree from Columbia, was a street worker with the New York City Youth Board. The life he describes makes "West Side Story" sound like a kindergarten fairy tale.

This is the brutal, unadorned truth about a world where rival gangs fight "wars" with tire-chains, knives and guns; where the teen-age date is replaced by mass rape in the back seat of a stolen car; where murder is a status symbol and kids of 14 are hopelessly hooked on dope.

"Juvenile delinquency is going to be unbeatable in ten years," the Attorney General of the United States said recently. Vincent Riccio writes bitterly: "I hope it's not unbeatable now."

Blood On My Shadow - A. J. Merak

The Pick-up order was out: Get Johnny Merak, dead or alive . . . .

Publisher: Badger Books 

Number: Mystery Series No. 3

Publishing Year: 1956

Printing: First

Cover Price: 2'-

Cover Artist: Ray Theobald

Introducing

Blood on My Shoulder

by

A. J. MERAK

Johnny Merak was determined to get Maxie Temple, who'd framed him for a three-year-stretch in San Quentin. But the Big Men of the Los Angeles Underworld wanted both Temple and Johnny Merak and decided that by killing Temple they could do both with the same shot.

But Merak wasn't having any of the deal and when Dawn Grahame showed up, he was more than ready to take on the whole of the Organisation. Bit first he had to meet the suspects. the unknown hoodlum who knew too much. Madden who might have been the killer and his girl-friend who had to be fed with heroin to keep her from talking to the wrong people.

Finally there were Clancy Snow and Dutch McKnight, the bosses of the Underworld who sat like black spiders in the web of treachery and vice that made up the Dark Side of Los Angeles.

And at the end of the play, when the chips were down and all the cards on the table. Death stepped in to reap the winnings.

Pablo's Mountain - Albert Johnston

 A BOY EXPLODES INTO MANHOOD IN THIS CLASSIC OF "DEPRAVITY VIEWED THROUGH THE EYES OF INNOCENCE"

Publisher: Award Books

Number: A164 X K

Publishing Year: 1966 (January)

Printing: First

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"Moving . . . Disturbing"

-N.Y. Times

You have just come to New York City looking for a home, a job, and (yes, Miguel would soon admit this to himself) love.

But in El Barrio, the heart of this city, you find only corruption: prostitutes for neighbors, hoodlums for the children to play with. In El Barrio you live with fear by day and violence by night.

This is the background for the book that shocked New Yorkers, and readers across the nation, when it became the fiction "sleeper" of the year. This is story behind New York City's explosive headlines.

"MR. JOHNSTON IS TO BE CONGRATULATED"

-San Francisco Chronicle