["The Violent Land" should be successful] with the many readers who like their adventure, romance, crime, seduction and social injustice in exotic fancy dress, peeping through veils of literary language.

It isn't likely that this book has lost very much in translation. Too much is left: too much style for style's sake, too much indignation with the powerful and pity for the poor, too many excited, shadowy characters, too much love and lust and greed and arson and killing. (p. 8)

Nancy Flagg, in The New York Times Book Review (© 1945 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), June 24, 1945.