Brain Guy / Plunder
The details of how New York looked and felt then, and the men and women who populated it, are shot through with so much nuance and energy that they seem alive on the page today. --Wendell Jamieson, New York Times"James Cain hasn't even a running chance of dean of tellers of hard-boiled stories. He is completely out-pointed, outslugged, and outcursed by Benjamin Appel." --Harry Hansen"Every word Benjamin Appel writes is convincing. The atmosphere is breathlessly accurate. --Seattle Post Intelligencer