The collection includes three detective-adventure works written on the current topic of terror. J. Gowdy’s novel “Pelham, One Twenty-Three” tells how a gang of terrorists hijacks a New York subway train, but the idea was a success collapses thanks to the actions of ordinary law enforcement officers. In E. Sugar's story "Jason, you're dead!" A terminally ill writer, for the sake of a couple of extra years of life promised to him, becomes a hired killer and goes to shoot drug lords in the South American jungle. R. M. Stern’s novel “The Tower” recreates the picture of a fire in a huge skyscraper. The novel about the futility of pride and the triumph of greatness of spirit is inspired by the construction of the World Trade Center buildings and became the basis of the famous Hollywood blockbuster "Hell in the High Heavens" starring Steve McQueen.