Due or Die — Frank Kane

The Boys who couldn't go home ruled the air-conditioned oasis called Las Palmas. They'd built a beautiful new city there on the Nevada desert. It had the latest model of a roulette wheel, double-duty strippers and a modern police force that couldn't locate a fat man in a phone booth. Las Palmas could also point with pride to the fact that next to New York and Chicago, it sent the syndicate the biggest take of all.

But there was trouble in paradise -- a killer was on the loose and he'd neglected to get permission from the syndicate to move in. So the Boys called in Johnny Liddell to teach a murderer manners -- for ten thousand dollars a lesson.

Money isn't everything: cold cash won't keep you warm in the morgue. Johnny Liddell was learning that as he realized he was being set up for the next kill....