The story of Frank Ross, a journalist who is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison where he forms a friendship with a notorious gangster named 'Hood' Stacey, who helps him escape. Long out of print, this is the first new edition of this obscure jazz age classic in 90 years. It was filmed in 1939 with James Cagney and George Raft. "This is a vigorous and exciting novel-but like all novels of prison life, full of brutality and ugliness." -Sacramento Bee