THE BRAT
Gil Brewer
Fawcett Crest Gold Medal No. 708
Fire edition and printing/paperback original
Cover at by Barye Philips.

Brewer was one of the best of Gold Medal's crack lineup of authors who wrote paperback original crime thrillers.

She looked at the rotting, sun-blasted shack, the one room where they all lived, slept, made love, died. Looked at the dusty lawn where no grass grew. At the steaming swamp, at her tobacco-spitting mother. Saw the sly, lustful eyes of her father’s friends. Then she looked at her own lush beauty. Get me out of here, she prayed. Oh, please get me out of here! I’ll pay any price.