Ace D-257 Paperback Original (1957). Cover Art by Verne Tossey
From the back cover:
HOT BLOOD IN HARLEM
Maybe Luz wasn't the best kind of woman, but she was a real beauty -- and she belonged to Carlos. But one night Carlos came back to their flat in Spanish Harlem and found her gone. Now in the code of his birthplace, there was only one thing to do. So he bought a knife and started hunting the other man.
But this wasn't Puerto Rico, this was the teeming tenement jungle of Manhattan, and the man who'd stolen his wife was its feared boss -- a racketeer and killer. And Carlos, by his action, set off a chain reaction of vengeance and terror that could not be stopped until it reached its explosive climax.
Louis Malley, author of "Horns for the Devil," has written a tension-packed novel of the Puerto Ricans in America, told with understanding, full-bodied characterization and rising excitement.
Ace D-257 Paperback Original (1957). Cover Art by Verne Tossey
From the back cover:
HOT BLOOD IN HARLEM
Maybe Luz wasn't the best kind of woman, but she was a real beauty -- and she belonged to Carlos. But one night Carlos came back to their flat in Spanish Harlem and found her gone. Now in the code of his birthplace, there was only one thing to do. So he bought a knife and started hunting the other man.
But this wasn't Puerto Rico, this was the teeming tenement jungle of Manhattan, and the man who'd stolen his wife was its feared boss -- a racketeer and killer. And Carlos, by his action, set off a chain reaction of vengeance and terror that could not be stopped until it reached its explosive climax.
Louis Malley, author of "Horns for the Devil," has written a tension-packed novel of the Puerto Ricans in America, told with understanding, full-bodied characterization and rising excitement.