Publisher's Synopsis
"I'm damned if I give up a cent! I'll die first!" "You very likely will. Others have. To refuse these people is the first step toward suicide." "But are the police so impotent that a gang like this one can operate unmolested right under their very noses?" "The police are efficient in ordinary cases. These people, however, operate mysteriously. So far, the police have been helpless." The two men who thus discussed a criminal clique which was extorting money from prominent and wealthy citizens were seated in an exclusive Michigan Avenue club. From their deeply upholstered leather chairs they looked out across the busy street, with its hundreds of automobiles and strolling pedestrians, to the green lawns and leafing trees of Grant Park, awakened into renewed life by the soft breezes and warm sunshine of early June.
