- Taschenbuch: 343 Seiten
- Verlag: Stark House Press (Dezember 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 096678488X
- ISBN-13: 978-0966784886
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 14 x 2,5 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.968.160 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Rabe's career as a crime novelist was brief but intense, cut short by editorial caprice, personal upheaval, and changing public tastes. Most of his books were Gold Medal paperbacks, 16 of which were published between 1955 and 1960. While even his admirers agree that his quality was uneven, many crime writers and aficionados cite his best work as classic pulp fiction. With most of his work now unavailable, this reprinting of two vintage novels in one cover is especially welcome. Besides his taut, precise writing, Rabe stands apart in the genre for his unusual settings, protagonists, and stories. In The Box, an exiled New York gangster finds himself in a coastal North African town and tries to take over despite not knowing the language. In Journey into Terror, a working stiff whose fiancee was killed in a gang crossfire seeks revenge on the man who pulled the trigger. Both stories feature strong psychological underpinnings and protagonists trying to outrun themselves. Noir addicts looking for a fix of the good stuff will find it here. Keir Graff
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One of the Gold Medal noir's "Holy Trinity" still shines
8. Mai 2007
I finished reading Peter Rabe's THE BOX, the Stark House edition packaged with JOURNEY INTO TERROR. The nutshell plot concerns Quinn, a sharpie New York City lawyer, shipped out by the Mob in a wooden crate round-trip to teach Quinn a lession. Quinn is busted out of the crate in the North African town of Okar, still alive but a bit unglued. After surveying the town's operations, he tries to muscle in on the local smuggling business. One of the striking qualities about Rabe is his original "voice", and I'd vote "thumbs up" on it. The harsh, claustrophobic setting helps to develp the "box" metaphor in the story. Helpful essays by Ed Gorman, Bill Crider, Donald Westlake, and George Tuttle offer perspective on the author and his work, including the Gold Medal canon. Like Charles Williams and John D. MacDonald, Rabe's fiction tells a good story but in a fresh, accessible way.
JOURNEY INTO TERROR (1957) is book 11 of the 18 Rabe wrote from 1955 through 1960 for Gold Medal. This classic noir pivots on John Bunting's obsession over avenging the death of his fiancée Ann Jackson killed by a stray bullet during a robbery. Bunting, a young electrical engineer, grows enraged, calculating, and relentless. He finds out that Saltenberg, a local racketeer, ordered the robbery, and Tarpin led the gang. After John meets Linda, the widow of Saltenberg's late accountant, they learn Tarpin is in Manitoba, Florida, (near Miami) operating a pinball machine racket.
The narrative then shifts with their "journey" (in Linda's car) to confront Tarpin in Florida. Rabe innovatively contrasts the settings of wintry New York (Bunting's plan) with sultry Florida (Bunting's execution). Bunning gets a job assembling pinball machines for Tarpin and plots his payback. The edgy romance Bunting has with Linda intensifies his ambivalence and also prevents JOURNEY from slipping into a formulaic revenge noir.
I like how the characters' dialogue and mannerisms are sharp and true whether in a cathouse, lunch counter, or Florida bar. Rabe, a Ph.D. in psychology, builds plenty of introspection in the scenes, especially the troubled Bunting and Linda trying to figure each other out.
JOURNEY INTO TERROR (1957) is book 11 of the 18 Rabe wrote from 1955 through 1960 for Gold Medal. This classic noir pivots on John Bunting's obsession over avenging the death of his fiancée Ann Jackson killed by a stray bullet during a robbery. Bunting, a young electrical engineer, grows enraged, calculating, and relentless. He finds out that Saltenberg, a local racketeer, ordered the robbery, and Tarpin led the gang. After John meets Linda, the widow of Saltenberg's late accountant, they learn Tarpin is in Manitoba, Florida, (near Miami) operating a pinball machine racket.
The narrative then shifts with their "journey" (in Linda's car) to confront Tarpin in Florida. Rabe innovatively contrasts the settings of wintry New York (Bunting's plan) with sultry Florida (Bunting's execution). Bunning gets a job assembling pinball machines for Tarpin and plots his payback. The edgy romance Bunting has with Linda intensifies his ambivalence and also prevents JOURNEY from slipping into a formulaic revenge noir.
I like how the characters' dialogue and mannerisms are sharp and true whether in a cathouse, lunch counter, or Florida bar. Rabe, a Ph.D. in psychology, builds plenty of introspection in the scenes, especially the troubled Bunting and Linda trying to figure each other out.
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