Temper The Wind

Short assed, baby faced Lonnie, invalided out of the Lafayette Flying Corps some seven years before, is running a gas station in the hills overlooking Los Angeles.

Shell shocked, alone since the death of the sister who raised him, he’s a quiet feller and leads a quiet day to day life until this high powered Sheba roars into his life in a shot up Chrysler.

Tall, arrogant, beautiful, with blue eyes and flaming red hair, and dressed like no twist he ever saw before, she can pour on the charm as easily as she lies, and she tells lies as fast and smooth as the dog trots.

She only wants him to help rub out the gang of bootleggers who murdered her brother.

Sometimes a man doesn’t get a choice, not if he’s the quiet sort of feller who won the Croix de Guerre for doing the impossible.

In his wildest nightmares he could never have imagined the future now about to unfold before him …