She kissed him – and there was flame on his lips. Could Johnny Devereaux find his old self in the soft and willing arms of this woman? Or would he lose himself utterly, as had her husband – the man Johnny desperately hunted.A tough cop moving through his toughest case, Johnny could not afford mistakes. He would have to bypass beatings and bullets – and a tomb in a marsh – to reach the fantastic end of this search. Then at last, remembering a torn woman, he would stand face to face ...

The crooks, the grafters, all of New York's underworld kept telling themselves that they never had it so good as they would now, with Johnny Devereaux retiring from the force after 21 years. Devereaux was a tough cop, tough to encounter and impossible to bluff.Devereaux was doing a little chortling of his own. He was still young enough to enjoy life; he wanted to read some books, take a little trip, fulfill a few dreams. He was sitting in his car that evening, thinking about his be...

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TRAPPED IN CUSTOM-MADE GRAVESThere was Stroilov, who preferred suicide to suffocation—or to death by the killer who lurked in the silent blackness.There was Taylor, who gave apologies to no man and who now refused God, vowing even to murder before his last breath.There was Susan, who used her small space beneath the earth as a confession box, daring to speak thoughts that lay stagnant in her mind and blood.And there was Donna, most courageous of all, who struggl...