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A trio of classic novels in the third omnibus from "the king of hard boiled crime fiction" (USA Today).
"There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate" (New York Times), and it's in full force in this collection of three of his greatest Mike Hammer novels:
The Girl Hunters: Hammer's voluptuous, long-lost love is targeted by the mastermind assassin known as the Dragon.
The Snake: Protecting a runaway blonde, Hammer trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and sex-hungry females.
The Twisted Thing: A kidnapping case links Hammer to a fourteen year-old mystery and the most venomous killer the private eye has ever faced.
"There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate" (New York Times), and it's in full force in this collection of three of his greatest Mike Hammer novels:
The Girl Hunters: Hammer's voluptuous, long-lost love is targeted by the mastermind assassin known as the Dragon.
The Snake: Protecting a runaway blonde, Hammer trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and sex-hungry females.
The Twisted Thing: A kidnapping case links Hammer to a fourteen year-old mystery and the most venomous killer the private eye has ever faced.
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Hopefully the final volume.
29. Dezember 2010
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This has been an excellent series of reprints, and all the credit goes to Max Allan Collins for jumping onboard the revived interest in Hard-Boiled detective fiction since Frank Miller's Sin City. But, I feel, it is time for the series to end. The first two volumes of the series reprinted Spillane's initial six novels, which are deservedly the most well-known and notorious due to Spillane's now-classic 'Hard-Boiled' narrative style, and his unflinching portrayal of sex and violence that was unheard of in popular fiction at the time. This third volume is good as well, but I feel, in all fairness to the character of Mike Hammer and the reading audience, should be the final volume in the series. The first two novels in this volume represent Spillane's return to writing Mike Hammer, after taking a decade-long hiatus from the character after joining the Jehovah's Witnesses. The third novel is actually the second Mike Hammer novel he ever wrote, but declined to publish at the time due to the strong demand for a Mike Hammer novel loaded with bullets, booze, and broads, to follow up to his initial novel. He instead published The Twisted Thing in the 1960s after the two novels that announced Mike Hammer's return. I feel The Twisted Thing is a strong work in itself, although possibly more akin to a Marlowe or Poirot novel. And it represents a good coda to the series of reprints issued thus far. The next novel in the Mike Hammer series is when the series went downhill in my opinion. Hammer fighting a bunch of free-lovig hippies is somehow incongruent with the elements that make Hammer, well, Hammer. Hammer appears old, and extremely out of his element in this next novel, and becomes increasingly more so as the later novels drag on, seemingly just to give Spillane a paycheck. IMHO, it is akin to Roger Moore assuming the Bond mantle after Connery and Lazenby. Gone are the leisure suit escapades of Bond thoughout country clubs and other chic pre-seventies environs. Bond, played by Moore, just doesn't seem to be one with his environment and the 1970s proved to be no place for James Bond to inhabit. Just as the late 1960s prove to be no place for Hammer, once he consciously enters into them in the 10th novel. The events and situations novels in the Mike Hammer Collection Volume 3 could occur in the same post-war 1940s/50s world that Hammer previously occupied. But no so, starting with The Body Lovers, all the way until the later novels where Hammer goes after Islamic terrorists in post-911 New York City.
Please, Max Allan Collins, end the reprint series now. I would like to keep these three volumes proudly beside by Hammett, Chandler, and Cain collections without adding others. Thanks for all the hard work and dedication you've put into getting these three volumes published.
Please, Max Allan Collins, end the reprint series now. I would like to keep these three volumes proudly beside by Hammett, Chandler, and Cain collections without adding others. Thanks for all the hard work and dedication you've put into getting these three volumes published.
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Review of The Twisted Thing
17. Februar 2011
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14-year-old genius Rustin York is kidnapped and his father reflexively points the finger at the one ex-con in his employ. The ex-con calls Mike Hammer to help him out, and Hammer gets the guy released and rehired. The father is remorseful and asks Hammer to help find his son.
The Twisted Thing is the novel that author Mickey Spillane (who preferred being called a "writer" since he only did it for the money) sent to his publisher instead of finishing The Big Bang. It was actually his intended follow-up to I, the Jury and was originally titled For Whom the Gods Would Destroy. But when the public responded to the intensity of that book, he wrote the more similar My Gun Is Quick instead.
So, the "real" second Hammer novel sat unpublished for over a decade until the deadline for The Big Bang approached and that novel wasn't done. Spillane dusted off For Whom the Gods Would Destroy, added some references to cases Hammer had taken in the intervening time, changed the title, and turned it in instead, leaving readers without a true Hammer response to the late '60s until Max Allan Collins completed The Big Bang this year.
This novel has all the Spillane hallmarks: deep characterization, a fast plot, realistic dialogue (peppered generously with tough-guy slang), and a great deal of sensitivity shown through Hammer's treatment of Rustin York, boy genius. It also has the expected "surprise" ending (though honestly, anyone who doesn't see this one coming a mile away hasn't read enough Agatha Christie). So, though The Twisted Thing doesn't reach classic status, it still has a lot to offer Hammer fans.
The Twisted Thing is the novel that author Mickey Spillane (who preferred being called a "writer" since he only did it for the money) sent to his publisher instead of finishing The Big Bang. It was actually his intended follow-up to I, the Jury and was originally titled For Whom the Gods Would Destroy. But when the public responded to the intensity of that book, he wrote the more similar My Gun Is Quick instead.
So, the "real" second Hammer novel sat unpublished for over a decade until the deadline for The Big Bang approached and that novel wasn't done. Spillane dusted off For Whom the Gods Would Destroy, added some references to cases Hammer had taken in the intervening time, changed the title, and turned it in instead, leaving readers without a true Hammer response to the late '60s until Max Allan Collins completed The Big Bang this year.
This novel has all the Spillane hallmarks: deep characterization, a fast plot, realistic dialogue (peppered generously with tough-guy slang), and a great deal of sensitivity shown through Hammer's treatment of Rustin York, boy genius. It also has the expected "surprise" ending (though honestly, anyone who doesn't see this one coming a mile away hasn't read enough Agatha Christie). So, though The Twisted Thing doesn't reach classic status, it still has a lot to offer Hammer fans.
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waiting on volume 4
22. November 2011
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I have loved all three volumes of this collection. In fact, I came to Amazon tonight looking to see if I could find out when volume four of this collection would be available. While I was here, I thought I would give my two cents on Mike Hammer and these collections. I can't say enough about them and think that everyone involved has done an amazing job. Obviously Mickey Spillane did a great job creating these stories that are still captivating fans a half century later. I truly feel that these collections reflect that. I've lent them to a couple of friends who have gone on to purchase them as well.
I read a review on here that calls for an end to this series and although I recognize everyone's right to their opinion I couldn't disagree more. Honestly, I respect Spillane for taking Hammer beyond the post-war world that birthed him and not being afraid to let the world beat our hero up a bit while doing it. Spillane could have locked Hammer in that time forever (other authors have done it). I think it is best that he didn't though. Hammer has always been a larger than life character; His very existence is predicated on his values even when society in general does not share those values. Spillane allowed the world (and its values) to change around Hammer although Hammer himself never really did. This constancy made his stand for those values even more interesting to read.
I personally hope that this series continues until all of the Hammer books are reprinted! I'll buy every volume.
I read a review on here that calls for an end to this series and although I recognize everyone's right to their opinion I couldn't disagree more. Honestly, I respect Spillane for taking Hammer beyond the post-war world that birthed him and not being afraid to let the world beat our hero up a bit while doing it. Spillane could have locked Hammer in that time forever (other authors have done it). I think it is best that he didn't though. Hammer has always been a larger than life character; His very existence is predicated on his values even when society in general does not share those values. Spillane allowed the world (and its values) to change around Hammer although Hammer himself never really did. This constancy made his stand for those values even more interesting to read.
I personally hope that this series continues until all of the Hammer books are reprinted! I'll buy every volume.
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