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Las Vegas Strip

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Strong spine with slight Bright clean cover hs light shelf and edge wear. Text is perfect. Same day shipping first class.

349 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

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Morris Renek

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July 28, 2014
What a typical commercial 70s bullshit; including 'nice clothings', phony stud without a real taste and ass full of money, awfully written, such a cheap bullshit. This book made me so nervous and angry i had to throw it in the sea.
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November 30, 2012
Contains maybe the best murder scene in fiction of all times.
A Key Novel about Benjamin Bugsy Siegel and the Story about the Flamingo.
But this Yank Karkov is a nice guy compared with the real Bugsy and his desperate Crimes, if you follow Donald H. Wolfes Version of the black Dahlia Murder.
Renek writes on Tracks of Harold Robbins and therefore there are a lot of somehow funny sex-scenes, for example when the broke young stud has to satisfy the unsatiable Women of his Partner, who of course should not know aobut the „relationship“, to get the money together.
The best Part happens far earlier, when Bugsy and his gang try to kill a rival in the desert and the victim uses a sandstorm as advantage and shoots some of the killers, while both sides are struggling to survive the sandstorm or to get buried alive.

Ein Schlüsselroman über Benjamin Bugsy Siegel und den Aufbau seines Casinos in Las Vegas. Ein lieber Junge im Vergleich zu den Verbrechen aus Verzweiflung, die Donald H. Wolfe in seinem Black Dahlia-Buch beschreibt.
Das hier ist Literatur der 70er, befindet sich also irgendwie im Wettstreit mit Harold Robbins, d.h. Sex mit einem Hauch von Komik.
Etwa wenn der junge Hengst ohne ausreichendes Kapital eine unersättliche Gönnerin befriedigen muss.
Der eigentlich Höhepunkt des Buches befindet sich schon am Anfang: die beinahe missglückte Hinrichtung eines unliebsamen Konkurrenten in der Wüste, in deren Verlauf Täter wie Opfer in einen Sandsturm geraten und beinahe drin umkommen. Wenn ich je genötigt wäre irgendwo abzuschreiben, dann diese paar Seiten.
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