Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.

A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.

A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.

A brother and sister live their whole lives in a mansion not knowing each other. One day they meet between the floorboards.

Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are after Harry believing that he has the priceless plates Carlyle used to counterfeit money.