I only own two Gold Medal books and I just finished the last
one, Peter Rabe's THE BOX. Good book. I was very satisfied
with the way it ended. Character interaction was subtle and
satisfying, if maybe just a hair tedious. The plot was
slightly hard to swallow, too, but I don't consider that to
be a significant problem. The truth is that a lot of
unreasonable stuff happens in the real world all the
time.
In a windy sun-parched town on the north coast of Africa, a
suspicious crate is unloaded from a freighter before it has
reached its destination. A man, Quinn, is found trapped
inside, still alive. His trip in the box was his reward for
coming out on the losing end of an organized crime rivalry in
the States. Quinn finds two things that he wants in this
small town: first, a beautiful woman named Bea, and second, a
smuggling op- eration run by the town's mayor. The story
concerns his struggle to gain both, and the eventual
outcome.
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So in the end Bea and Quinn run off together, don't they?
Seems like Bea might have had second thoughts about him when
the only reason he took her was because he couldn't have
Remal's smuggling operation. Oh well, true love, I
guess.
miker
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