In this he implicates not just himself but also Tyler Trucking and Gail, with whom he has developed a romantic attachment. In what he thinks willīe a simple heist, he becomes an unwilling accessory to the murder of the head of a rival trucking firm.
He manages to infiltrate the mob, but soon finds himself in over his head. Using a mix of guts, muscle, and brains, Anderson builds a reputation as a cool-headed tough whose only interest is Anderson soon learns thatīetween the union and the crime syndicate it fronts, the lifespan of a trucker in River City is not
The firm is being run by Gail Tyler,įollowing her father's death-under suspicious circumstances-in a high-speed truck wreck. There, he signs on as a driver with Tyler Trucking. Under the name of his late hobo pal, Mac McCarthy, Anderson returns to River city With a bottle of henna he completes the transformationīy coloring his blond hair red. His formerly pale skin to leather, and a run-in with a railyard bull has left his nose broken and hisĬheek scarred, he is scarcely recognizable as his old self. Seeing no refuge for himself in River City, Anderson rides the rails out of town and fades from local memory.Īnderson realizes that after four years of hobo living has melted away his flab, the sun has turned Captain Domms of the city police is unable to protect him or, worse, has his own hand in the mob's pocket. He barely escapes fiery death after the mob wires a bomb into the door of his car. A few years later, disguised as hard-muscled Irish hobo "Mac" McCarthy, Anderson returns to River City with a plan to even the score.Īfter testifying against the murderer of bank guard Pop Walters, "Swede" Anderson finds himself number one on the River City, California crime syndicate's hit list. With his tail between his legs, he barely gets out of town before the mob takes deadly revenge.
In River City, bank teller "Swede" Anderson puts the finger on a syndicate murderer and learns the cost of civic duty the hard way. Come Back for More, by American novelist Al Fray, was published in 1958
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