Johnny Burke, executioner for Lucky Luciano and his countrywide
mob, is assigned the duty of working with Naval Intelligence during
W.W. II. The N.Y.C. waterfront must be cleared of spies and
saboteurs with Burke's help. The price the government must pay
for Burke& acute; s help is to deport Luciano to Sicily rather
than make him finish out his thirty year prison sentence after the
war comes to an end. While the Normandie is being retrofitted from
French luxury liner to Allied troopship, it is sabotaged at its
Pier 88. One unidentified saboteur escapes to Canada. The remaining
three are eliminated. The War is over and Burke is accused by the
D.A. of murdering the surviving saboteur who in the mean time has
returned to N.Y.C. and become a boss-stevedore. Burke finds himself
in Sing Sing's electric chair claiming innocence. Adventure -
romance - political corruption - and courtroom drama will keep the
pages turning.
