The Mike Hammer Omnibus: "The Jury" "My Gun is Quick" "Vengeance is Mine!" v. 1 - Softcover

Spillane, Mickey

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9780749005191: The Mike Hammer Omnibus: "The Jury" "My Gun is Quick" "Vengeance is Mine!" v. 1

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074900519X ISBN 13: 9780749005191

Publisher: Allison & Busby, 2002

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A triple-shot collection from the undisputed master of detective fiction. In Mickey Spillane's classic private eye novels, the action exploded in a bonecrunching catharsis. Men and women didn't make love - they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one's morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption. These novels rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more. Given their hot, fever-pitch prose and breathless pacing, Spillane's Mike Hammer novels quickly became one of the most successful series in publishing history - an innovative, no-holds barred, ultravisceral explosion of sex and violence that made Hammer a literary legend and Spillane one of the bestselling authors of all time. After fifty years, neither has lost his power to deliver a knockout punch. Find out for yourself in this omnibus edition featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels by the living master of the hard-boiled mystery...I, The Jury, My Gun Is Quick, Vengeance is Mine!

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Review:

`Mickey Spillane is a master' -- New York Times

`The 20th century's bestselling novelist'
-- Guardian

About the Author:

Mickey Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1918. After World War II, Spillane converted an unsold comic-book project - "Mike Danger, Private Eye" - into a hard-hitting, sexy novel. The Mike Hammer series went on to sell in its millions and Kiss Me, Deadly became the first private eye novel to make the New York Times bestseller list. Spillane has been honoured by the Mystery Writers of America with the 'Grand Master Award' and by with a 'Lifetime Achievement Award' from the Private Eye Writers of America. He currently lives with his wife in South Carolina.

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