He was an ex-con walking the last steps toward freedom. He was an ex-con torn between the lust to get the man who "sent him up the river" and the vow to go straight; torn between returning to his faithful wife and his pulse-quickening Cuban mistress...As the prison gates closed behind him het met—not his wife, but the enticing Cuban. She took him to a private retreat in the woods. She was everything that he remembered.Then suddenly she was cold—cold and dead in his arms!

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He was as rare as a three-dollar bill . . . an honest man in the town of French Bayou - that was crowding Phenix City out of corruption's first place.He was young Deputy Sheriff Andy Latour, with enough stern morality for someone to have set an assassin on his trail.But Latour dodged the bullets, and now it was urgent that his voice be silenced. So - a phone call in the night, a drive out of town, the thud of a blackjack.And when Latour woke to daylight he was ringed around by hard, watchful men, accused of the brutal rape of a gorgeous young redhead - and the murder of her aged husband.And even when Latour crashed jail, the word went out to bring him back dead . . .