<div><p>The place: Detroit. The time: World War II.</p><p>While most of the police department is fighting overseas, the four men of the Racket Squad struggle to keep a lid on a powderkeg stuffed with draft-dodging troublemakers, Black Market gangsters, enemy saboteurs, and a mixed bag of racial and ethnic groups working uneasily side by side in defense plants run by the automobile industry.</p><p>With blackjacks, brass knuckles, tommy guns, and their bare fists, Lieutenant Max Zagreb, Sergeant Starvo Canal, and detectives McReary and Burke--known collectively as the &quot;Four Horsemen&quot;--battle their way through ten gritty stories in the hardest-boiled town during the twentieth century's hardest-boiled decade.</p></div>