From Violent Men

In the city of San Francisco a member of the Boards of Supervisors once assassinated the Mayor and a fellow Supervisor. The assassin was sentenced to a term of seven years and eight months, of which he was expected to serve only four and one-half years. A small group of men decided this sentence had in effect given the assassin a license to kill, and thus they devise a plot to murder the assassin while he was still in prison. This is the story of how one horrendous crime led to another, and then another, and... Desmond Rhodes The bitter politician who plots the murder Rick Jessup The young reporter who is used by the plotters without his knowledge Debra Ellen Short The wife of the assassin caught between duty and personal freedom Brad Short The All-American boy who killed the Mayor and the Supervisor and started it all --- from book's back cover