Reviews

"Peter Rabe was a kind of fictional surgeon. His novels are skillful operations performed with scalpel-like precision on the underbelly of American society -- raw, bloody, filled with tension and emotion, culminating in powerful and neatly sutured final scenes. He had few peers among noir writers of the 50s and 60s; he has few peers today." -Bill Pronzini "As I've said before, Peter Rabe is one of the two major genre influences on my writing, Hammett being the other. His use of language, his handling of emotion, and his eye for the dramatic detail inside the normal were an inspiration for me, and never more so than in THE BOX, the opening section of which is my beau ideal for how to begin a story." -Donald E. Westlake ". . . head and shoulders above most of his competition in the hard-boiled field." -Nassau Daily Tribune