Four-Time Loser (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781479430925)

Meet BALDO SCARPA -- 67 years old, born in Sicily, a U.S. citizen since 1919. Sentenced to 5 years in 1924 for extortion. Paroled in 1927. Sentenced to 8 years in 1932 for manslaughter. Paroled in 1938. Sentenced to 25 years to life in 1943 for kidnapping.

They were giving him one more chance to live inside the law, one more chance to keep away from crime. His last chance, and if he muffed it there would be nothing left but a bare cell in which he could wait for death...