Mike Hammer is the centre of Mickey Spillane’s crime fiction: a private investigator whose cases are driven by revenge, violence and a blunt personal code rather than careful police procedure. I, the Jury introduces Hammer through the murder of a close friend, while My Gun Is Quick, One Lonely Night and Kiss Me, Deadly continue the series through New York criminals, political paranoia and hard-boiled confrontations. Spillane also created the counter-intelligence agent Tiger Mann and wrote standalones such as The Long Wait. His prose is terse, fast and openly sensational, with first-person narration, gunplay and abrupt reversals taking priority over subtle detection. These books belong to classic hard-boiled crime, private-eye fiction and pulp noir, especially for readers interested in the tougher, more violent branch of the tradition after Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Read more Less
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