Mike McCall

The co-ed missing from Tisquanto State is the daughter of Governor Sam Holland's rival for reelection-and best friend. But she is more than that. She is Laura Thornton, a human being-somehow the pawn and victim of angry student upheavals not even the governor understands …Who is behind the terror found a focus in Laura's disappearance? Who is inciting Tisquanto's protests and riots-a madcap prankster, an earnest reformer … or a conspiracy sworn to the college's destruction?It is a case for Mike McCall, the governor's special assistant, a two-fisted troubleshooter who finds his crimes in the crises of modern America … Mike McCall, who finds on Tisquanto's campus not only the raging hatreds of rebelling youth-but murder!

Where is Harlan James?He is the indicted, bail-jumping leader of Banbury's militant Black Hearts who has gone underground … but whose rage, still heard on tape, is edging the city towards interracial terror.Harlan James calls for violence-for black protests, demonstrations, drastic political action against the city's white leaders.But did he also call for-or commit-murder?It is a top priority job for Mike McCall, a new breed of crime-fighter, whose cases plunge him into the crises of modern America. When a prominent white official is shot to death, McCall must find the killer-or face open racial warfare!

Blue film and blood-red murder!All Hollywood producer Ben Sloane had wanted was to find Sol Dahlman, the mysterious film genius who had made The Wild Nymph-and now Sloane is dead. "Go up to Rockview," the governor tells Mike McCall, "and get me the killer!"But isn't quite that easy. The Mann Photo Service, long rumored to be a center of the blue movie industry, is torn by a strike, and nobody is talking to strangers-not Xavier Mann, not Mayor Jordan, not beautiful April Evans, who refuses even to tell who she is or why she, too, is investigating the murder.Then, just to make the job a little harder, Cynthia Rhodes and her women's liberation raiders hit town-and a man named Carry Tanner decides McCall has lived too long …