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Daniel Port #2
The Out is Death
Colour illustration by Kirwan.
126 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1957
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Peter Rabe
112 books15 followersPeter Rabe aka Peter Rabinowitsch, was a German American writer who also used the nom de plumes Marco Malaponte and J.T. MacCargo (though not all of the latter's books were by him). Rabe was the author of over 30 books, mostly of crime fiction, published between 1955 and 1975.
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March 15, 2023
Between 1956 and 1959, Peter Rabe published six novels in his Daniel Port crime series, a series that has the same main character appear throughout, but does not follow a set scheme throughout. Each of these novels could be read on its own as a standalone novel, yet all contain in some manner the theme of a criminal trying to get out of the rackets, but unable to fully escape his past. The series includes (1) Dig My Grave Deep (1956); (2) The Out is Death (1957); (3) It’s My Funeral (1957 ); (4) The Cut of the Whip (1958 ); (5) Bring Me Another Corpse (1959); and (6) Time Enough to Die (1959).
The Out is Death finds Port out on his own, but he has been contacted by Abe Dalton, an aging safecracker, recently paroled from prison. Dalton has not got much life let in him, but he needs help. A tough guy has something over him and is forcing him back into a series of jobs, a never-ending series of jobs. Dalton, old, bent, ailing, can't survive another stretch of prison and has not got the energy to stand up to the young tough. Port steps in, seemingly out of the blue, and works to get Dalton out of the jam, knowing what a situation Dalton is in. This novel finds Port as an older, wiser tough guy sticking his neck out for an old acquaintance when perhaps Port's interests would be better served going his own way.
This is not a caper novel in the sense that there is not one main event which all the action is building up to. Rather, it has a series of events where Port steps in, finding that he is perhaps the only one still willing to stick his neck out for Dalton and that those in Dalton's past want to forget they ever knew him.
The Out is Death finds Port out on his own, but he has been contacted by Abe Dalton, an aging safecracker, recently paroled from prison. Dalton has not got much life let in him, but he needs help. A tough guy has something over him and is forcing him back into a series of jobs, a never-ending series of jobs. Dalton, old, bent, ailing, can't survive another stretch of prison and has not got the energy to stand up to the young tough. Port steps in, seemingly out of the blue, and works to get Dalton out of the jam, knowing what a situation Dalton is in. This novel finds Port as an older, wiser tough guy sticking his neck out for an old acquaintance when perhaps Port's interests would be better served going his own way.
This is not a caper novel in the sense that there is not one main event which all the action is building up to. Rather, it has a series of events where Port steps in, finding that he is perhaps the only one still willing to stick his neck out for Dalton and that those in Dalton's past want to forget they ever knew him.
April 28, 2015
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