Kill the Boss Goodbye

By Peter Rabe

Book Overview

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.??Tom Fell has been mad for some time.??But who has the nerve to destroy him???While Tom Fell was away, his empire collapsed.??The cops started raiding his betting parlors.??The lieutenant he left in charge decided he wanted to stay in charge. Now Fell is back from his enigmatic vacation--tan, rested, and teetering on the edge of psychosis.??Can Fell claw his way back to power without ending up in an institution? And can anybody stop him without ending up in the morgue? Kill the Boss Good-Byeis a post-Freudian thiller that manages to be simultaneously terrifying and tragic.??Elegantly modulated and filled with characters who inspire both compassion and revulsion, this novel transports us to the frontier where sickness becomes pure evil.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679740694
• ISBN13: 9780679740698
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" 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.