BRAIN GUY is the story of a young gangster on the rise in Depression-era New York City. PLUNDER is set in post-WWII Manila, where two AWOL GIs scheme to take control of the burgeoning blackmarket, trading in any commodity that's available.
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Benjamin Appel was born in 1907 in New York City and grew up in HellÂ’s Kitchen. He began writing short stories and was published in both literary and slick magazines. Brain Guy was his first novel, followed by fifteen others. In 1945 and 1946 he was sent as historian/journalist with the McNutt Mission to the Philippines. Returning to the States, he moved to Roosevelt, New Jersey, a New Deal resettlement town, where he lived with his wife and three daughters and wrote both fiction and nonfiction until he died in 1977.
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excellent crime noir,
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This is an author that should be added to the Library of America crime noir series. it is a fascinating look inside the world of early NY con men, well written and worth reading. I'm surprised it is out of print. I also recommend his book Sweet Money Girl, also out of print but worth tracking down.
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