

On the Honolulu waterfront, a sailor's fists can settle a prize fight, but they cannot always tell him whom to trust. Steve Costigan, able seaman and shipboard heavyweight champion, speaks in his own rough, colloquial voice, turning every collision of boxing, maritime labour...

THE SEA GIRL hadn't been docked in Honolulu more'n three hours before Bill O'Brien come legging it down to the pool hall where I was showing Mushy Hansen the fine points of the game, to tell me that he'd got me matched to fight some has-been at the American Arena that night."The...

" Waterfront Fists" is a short story by Robert Ervin Howard. Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father...