Perilous Passage

By Arthur Mayse

Book Overview

Drug-runners threaten the West Coast

A semi-conscious man looks about a boat's cabin as a woman presses a wet cloth to his forehead. She's young, her nails are short, and her small hands are calloused. When another man tries to enter, she grabs a gun: "If you come down here, Joe, I'll shoot you."

For a moment, the intruder doesn't move. "I don't want your damn' old hulk," he tells her. When the woman threatens a second time, he leaves. "You'd better too," he says. "She's near sunk."

So begins the story of Clint, a reform school runaway, and Devvy, an orphaned farm girl saddled with a deceitful drunk of a stepmother. Clint and Devvy are pushed together as they struggle against the corrupt, criminal, violent adults trying to exert control over their lives.

Perilous Passage first appeared in 1949 as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. It has since been published in hardcover, paperback, and in Swedish translation. This Ricochet Books edition marks the first new edition since 1952.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550655841
• ISBN13: 9781550655841
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Vehicule Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.9"