Kill the Boss Good-by

by Peter Rabe

Book Overview

Pander wore dark glasses and fancy suspenders and he moved into the San Pietro rackets like a sandblaster gone berserk. Fell, the boss, was mysteriously away, and Pander grabbed the chance to bury his hands in the heavy money. Then Fell came back. At his side was Cripp, the human adding machine with the beautiful face and the twisted leg. With them came murder... wholesale.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479445134
• ISBN13: 9781479445134
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The hype is good, believe the hype

I beg to differ with the other reviewers. The book is clinical, that part is true, but I definitely wouldn't call it cold, or monotonous for that matter. More like minimalist.The novel is intelligent, poignant and, in it's own way, moving. What Rabe does is to acknowledge the hard-boiled cliches that are expected of him, strip most of them away, as they would have otherwise stood in the way of him telling the story, and then use what is left of the gangster novel/roman noir vernacular to communicate directly with the reader in the clearest and most succint way imaginable. That way lies transcendence.