New York: Dial Press, 1930. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (his first, 'Little Caesar' was made into the 1931 film, starring Edward G. Robinson and considered the first gangster movie) is a powerful and brutal story of boxing, and the basis for two films: in 1931 featuring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow and a film noir in 1951 starring Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes and Rock Hudson. 312 pp.