Get Down There And Die
by Jennifer Lash
Harvester Press
4.50 pounds
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A Review for The Irish Press
16 February 1961
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                 Nighmarish novel reminiscent of Graham Greene except in its lack of sleazy detail.  A nineteen year old clerk sees a boy of his own age at a Tube station who is almost dead with fear and who immediately disappears.  The attempt to find him leads the clerk into terror of his own life.  The relentlessness of the quest and the pursuit which leads him from the East End of London to the West of Ireland are superbly done and the nightmarish qualities of paralysis and inevitability are well maintained.  Not, as Auntie Beeb has to say from time to time, for children or people of a nervous disposition.