The "Alley" [in Damnation Alley] is the post-holocaust road from L.A. to Boston and one that has never been run alive until the last of the Hell's Angels is forced to try it. Boston is down with the plague and only L.A. has the antidote. Thus full speed through a country that rains rocks, has hordes of giant bats and gila monsters, butterflies and spiders and vicious human animals. Only a Hell's Angel could make it. Only a Hell's Angel could believe it.

"Fiction: 'Damnation Alley'," in Kirkus Reviews (copyright © 1969 The Kirkus Service, Inc.), Vol. XXXVII, No. 17, September 1, 1969, p. 956.