From the pages of Pulp Magazines of the nineteen-thirties to the great Crime Novels of the forties and fifties, this straightforward, hard-hitting genre has stirred the imagination of millions for decades. The characters come at you from the tough streets of New York, to the back alleys of Chicago, all the way to the smoke-filled gambling back rooms of Hollywood. One never seems to get enough of the hard-boiled detective looking for answers, or the sultry dame with street smarts ready to seduce you with her beauty and sexual prowess. The attraction to these raw and gritty stories, which feature the handsome anti-hero, continues even today through psychological thrillers taking twists and turns and leaving us breathless with the inevitable surprise ending.
On the following pages, you can get acquainted with the characters of the novel Stone Cold Killers. Set in the mid-nineteen sixties, Stone Cold Killers features the Hit Men, a five-man task force of Chicago cops and Federal agents assembled to fight the notorious criminal underground in Chicago. Much of the story takes place in Chinatown, focusing on fictitious Triads and secret societies, following a young gangster on his rise to the top of the criminal underworld. Stone Cold Killers attempts to take the romance of the Pulp Magazines with the Crime Noir of the forties and package it in a raw and hard-hitting novel.
