The men who bossed the city were running scared. Elections were coming up and the voters were rallying behind Richardson Caldwell, an idealistic reformer with the old-fashioned notion that criminals belonged in jails instead of public offices. But then a staggering development struck at the hopes of Caldwell’s supporters. He was found drunk in his apartment, and beside him lay a murdered woman whose reputation had been notorious gossip for years. Caldwell was arrested and charged with murder. The cell door swung shut on his career and the hopes of the city for decent government. It was then that Sam Terrell, a newspaperman, began a determined inquiry into the life of the murdered girl, and into the forces to whom Caldwell’s arrest had meant a reprieve from ruin. The search was dangerous; but Terrell stuck at it stubbornly, convinced that his newspaper owed more to the community than sports news and comics. To this explosive situation William P. McGivern adds an illuminating dimension by examining with sympathy and power the question of how much a man owes the community in which he lives. Mr. McGivern’s compassionate talents have been seen in such novels as THE BIG HEAT, ROGUE COP, THE SEVEN FILE, etc. In NIGHT EXTRA, a story of passions and politics and people, he has reached a new superb level of suspense