Frisco Flat — Stuart James

Any Man Could Take Her -- But No Man Could Possess HerWhen his father is beaten-to-death, Korean War vet and ex-prize fighter Frankie Cargo returns to his home in the small, northern California waterfront town of Frisco Flat. Cargo has inherited his father's fishing boat business and trouble from Sam Barlow, the vicious local cannery owner who rules the town with fear...and with the iron fist of the psychopathic and corrupt Sheriff. If that wasn't bad enough, Barlow gets involved with the Sheriff's lover, the voluptuous Tosca Sorrento, who wants more than any man can give. But Barlow won't be pushed...and never backs down from a fight.Pretty darned good. Frisco Flat moves along well. The book is a little better written, a little more literary in places, than many of the hard-boiled novels from that era, James ReasonerThe pacing is brisk and the action sequences are exciting. Reading California Fiction Blog