Originally published in 1953, this little paperback original is available from Prologue Books in Kindle format.
Your .99 cents will take you on one of the sleaziest little tours of the New Orleans' French Quarter as it was in the early 1950s you are ly to find any time soon.

Pitiless and very, very violent tale of a small time hood trying to break into the big time while putting a flame thrower to every bridge he crosses.

Recommended For All Fans Of Cheap Paperback Thrills.16 s Dave3,240 395

Bourbon Street

Digger is a tough guy. He works the bookie business in New Orleans and wants to get into something new. He's got a big deal cooking. He wants a meeting with Vitolo Giannini, the bossman. When he got done talking with Giannini, Digger felt a fishing reel with a 500 lb marlin on the hook. Digger has to cut ties to some old pals and prove his loyalty to Mr G. He can then get his boats ready and his smuggling operation underway. Meanwhile half a dozen killers are after him for various reasons.
Lots of atmosphere here with gambling and drinking and lots of violence. At times Digger is a one man wrecking crew. Also, there's a long narrative about playing Hearts. The story is a gangster type novel and doesn't flow as well as it should in the early going. Halfway through all the bits and pieces start to make sense. It's a pulp era tale worth reading but not one of the author's best.crime-fiction-pulp prologue-books read-have2 s Dave3,240 395

Digger is a tough guy. He works the bookie business in New Orleans and wants to get into something new. He's got a big deal cooking. He wants a meeting with Vitolo Giannini, the bossman. When he got done
talking with Giannini, Digger felt a fishing reel with a 500 lb marlin on the hook. Digger has to cut ties to some old pals and prove his loyalty to Mr G. He can then get his boats ready and his smuggling
operation underway. Meanwhile half a dozen killers are after him for various reasons.

Lots of atmosphere here with gambling and drinking and lots of violence. At times Digger is a one man wrecking crew. Also, there's a long narrative about playing Hearts.

The story is a gangster type novel and doesn't flow as well as it should in the early going. Halfway through all the bits and pieces start to make sense. It's a pulp era tale worth reading but not one of the author's best.
2 s Eddie Generous729 82

Breakneck pace. The roughest, meanest protagonist I've read recently, if not ever. Fantastic, suspenseful ending.1 Dave3,240 395

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