Publisher's Synopsis
-You've got to get him, boys-get him or bust!- said a tired police chief, pounding a heavy fist on a table. The detectives he bellowed the words at looked at the floor. They had done their best and failed. Failure meant -resignation- for the police chief, return to the hated work of pounding the pavements for them-they knew it, and, knowing it, could summon no gesture of bravado to answer their chief's. Gunmen, thugs, hi-jackers, loft-robbers, murderers, they could get them all in time-but they could not get the man he wanted. -Get him-to hell with expense-I'll give you carte blanche-but get him!- said a haggard millionaire in the sedate inner offices of the best private detective firm
