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These qualities are embodied in the person of Noach Levinson, the diarist on whose discovered documents Hersey maintains he is basing his book. Levinson is an ugly man who runs around wheedling information from the central group of characters-people who are growing together under the curious pressures of the ghetto...
Wrath & Terror. Unhappily, Author Hersey chooses to tell the story in novel form, and employs one of the oldest and least effective technical tricks for giving fiction the authentic tang of fact: he pretends that he is merely the editor of papers written by Eyewitness Noach Levinson. This gabbiest of notetakers is supposed to have lived out the days of wrath and terror pen in hand, documenting the horror minute by minute, until he had built up a jumbo collection of manuscript and clippings filling 17 iron boxes and a number of parcels. These he buried before slipping away through...
...Somebody just took a drill and punched those holes," said Benny. The cops removed the door and shook half a dozen slugs out on the floor. Benny doubled up with laughter, handed out cigars and went off to Chicago for a vacation. So did his friend Levinson...
...August they came back, went about their business as if nothing had happened. Late one night last week they prepared for an important conference in a blue-walled, chintz-curtained Hollywood apartment. Benny slipped a cocked Mauser under the bedsheets and hid a .32 in the closet. Levinson laid down a Gladstone bag containing two sawed-off shotguns. As it turned out, these arrangements proved sadly inadequate...
...minutes after a knock sounded at the door, Levinson was dead on the floor with three slugs in his body. Benny the Meatball was out on the dark street yelling, "Help, help, help!" Five bullets had gone right through him, and he soon fell dead. Residents of the apartment looked out and saw a black automobile drive away...