Wolf Cop and Port Angelique
Richard Jessup was never content to stay in one genre—or even one type of story. Raised in an orphanage, he ran away to sea at thirteen and later dug cesspools and worked road gangs to feed his family. Writing was an act of grit and determination. Jessup hammered at his typewriter for ten hours a night, cycling through jobs as a merchant seaman, gambling dealer, and manual laborer. By age forty-seven, he had turned out hundreds of radio and TV scripts, seventy-five novels, and a fistful of film credits—sometimes under his own name, sometimes as Richard Telfair or Carey Rockwell.
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